Polling Unit officers at Ward 1, Abati Primary School, Shasha Akowonjo in Alimosho LG complained of voter’s apathy in area. While the exercise started at around 09 am, voters failed to turn out in appreciable number. There are about 8 polling units inside the school facility which serves as the Ward collation center. They told our correspondent that turnout dropped further, unlike what was recorded during the presidential and House of Assembly polls.
Scores of adhoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at Ojo and Iba Collation Centres in Lagos on Saturday staged a protest over unpaid allowances.
The collation centres are located at St. Michael Nursery and Primary School, Costain Road, Ojo, and Local Authority Primary School, Iba, both in Lagos State.
As at 9.30 a.m, the adhoc staff were seen chanting. “No Pay, No Work’’ at the collation centres, refusing to go and resume duty at the polling units in the area.
At about 8.00am, President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, on Saturday joined hundreds of other voters to exercise their civic rights at polling unit 003 Kofar Baru III, Gidan Niyam, Daura, Katsina State
After the conclusion of presidential election penultimate week, today, Nigerians vote to elect governnors in 29 states, while new state assemblies’ lawmakers would be elected in the 36 states.
There are no governorship elections in Edo, Ondo, Ekiti, Bayelsa, Kogi, Anambra and Osun because the tenures of their governors are yet to expire.
While the elections are being contested by 1,158 governorship candidates across the country, many of them are billed as keen contests between only a few candidates in each state.
Also, there will be supplementary elections in 14 states of the country to complete the Senatorial and House of Representatives electoral process in areas that recorded some hitches during the February 23 polls.
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