The President of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Western Nigeria Union, Pastor Oyeleke Owolabi has said the conduct of elections on Saturdays by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has been impeding and depriving many of its followers from participating in electoral process, because the church recognized Saturday as its Sabbath day. Owolabi made this disclosure in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday during a press conference ahead of its five-day 2016 Men’s Organisation National Convention commencing today in Ekiti State. In his words, Owolabi said, “We are not feeling comfortable because we are being disenfranchised. We have written many letters to INEC on the need to shift elections from Saturday and I know that it will accede to the request one day. We have seen a situation whereby a gubernatorial election was conducted in the country on Tuesday and I think the country recorded the highest turnout in history, so we are begging the INEC to put the interest of our people at heart”.
‘Stop conducting elections in Nigeria on Saturdays’ – Seventh-Day Adventist Church to INEC
