#AOPEDecides2021: SUG Election to hold online

The upcoming Students’ Union Government Election of Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic Eruwa for Executive Posts will be holding online according to the Management of the institution in other to avoid any insecurity of students towards the Election and to obey Covid19 Guidance Rules. The Dean of Students Affairs Pastor Ibukun Adewusi made this known to the SUG Members, Student Union Independent Electoral Commission SUIEC, Student Department Presidents and Aspirants along with their Stakeholders as the idea of Online voting is a unanimous decision after the suggestion from SUG President Comrade Ashaolu Victor Samuel, Management and Security Agencies.

The institution which recently had a successful Post-UTME online and scored first among all institutions that conducted PUME online is putting up good plans to have another successful online activity (SUG Election) which will be first time in the history of the institution. The Directorate of Digital and Technology Service DDTS Engineer Fawole Taiwo assured the students present at the meeting that online election process will be well organized, He said, “We know our capability and we are very sure there will not be any manipulation. We have had a successful post utme online and we are very confident that this online voting will not give us any problem.”

Asking about if the online voting platform will not be hacked, Engr Fawole replied, “the site will be well secured, we have our own database and we will be watching every activities done online from our side. Even if hackers tamper with us, they can’t tamper with our database. We will stop them and election will continue”

The Dean of Students Affairs further explained that Online Voting Education will be conducted to Applicants in which they will also educate their voters.