Voter apathy characterises Saturday’s polls in Edo
News Agency of Nigeria correspondents, who monitored the exercise reports that there was widespread voter apathy in the areas visited.
Mr Ehi Peters, a political analyst, told NAN that the apathy in most of the polling centres might not be unconnected with the results of the Presidential and National assembly elections. A food vendor, Mrs Margret Yakubu, said that voter turnout was not encouraging, compared to the last elections. A drink seller, Mrs Agnes Ogedegbe, described the low turnout of voters as a big disappointement “because I had envisaged I would make good profit.”
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