Saturday’s local government elections in Jigawa State recorded low turnout of voters, as only a handful of voters were seen in polling units, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
NAN correspondents who monitored the exercise in some of the council areas reported that there was voter apathy in most of the polling units during the poll.Accreditation and voting opened for the prospective voters in Babura at about 8 a.m. at polling unit 002, the registration area code of Governor Muhammad Badaru, amid low voter turnout.
NAN reports that as of 11:23 a.m. only 300 out of the 900 registered voters cast their votes and not many voters were seen on the queue for possible accreditation and voting. The presiding officer, Bashir Musa, said they were expecting the state governor to come and vote before closing by 3 p.m. In Kiyawa, Jahun, Suletankarkar and Gumel, the election also witnessed low turnout of voters in most polling units visited while children were seen playing around some of the centres.Muhammad Ibrahim, a voter in Babura, attributed the low voter turnout to the farming season.
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