Voters Turn-out for Kogi West Supplementary Election
POLITICS DIGEST – Reports from Kogi West supplementary election said there is relatively large number of voters turnout on Saturday as voting began peacefully.
News Agency of Nigeria reports that voters and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Staff started arriving polling units early in some of the centres.
Simultaneous accreditation and voting started at 8:15 a.m at Inuwa Lenge Open Space PU 04 in Lokoja.
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A voter, Malam Bala, 60, expressed satisfaction with the exercise and hoped it would not be “scattered again. “I am happy with the way it is going. No crisis. No fighting. They should just let us vote and they count it. We don’t need to fight. I am happy with the way we are calm,” he said.
The INEC had declared as inconclusive the Nov. 16, Kogi West Senatorial re-run when the margin of lead between Sen. Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Sen. Dino Melaye of the People’s Democratic Party of (PDP) was less than the number of outstanding votes.
A total of 53 polling units across Kogi west was cancelled due to ballot snatching and violence that characterised the Nov. 16 senatorial election in Kogi West.
-NAN