Accreditation of voters in yesterday’s governorship election in Adamawa commenced on schedule at most polling units in Yola, the state capital and many local government areas.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that in Yola, the exercise started at 8 a.m. as scheduled with the exception of a few units that experienced about 30 minutes delay.
The delay was due to late arrival of election materials.
At the Manu-Gamji, Lugere Primary School, Yahaya Tela, Yelwa 007, accreditation started at exactly 8a.m.
Presiding Officers in-charge of the units, Olusegun Abayomi, Omotaaro Ahmed, Chinedu Ogbuamalam and Oruka Alloysius respectively confirmed the commencement of the exercise on schedule.
They said the exercise was hitch-free as at that time and expressed the hope that voting would also take the same pattern.
At Ajiya ward, accreditation, however, started about an hour behind schedule at most of the polling units due to the late arrival of materials.
NAN, however, reports that there was a low turnout of women at some of the units in the ward.
Hajiya Mairo Ibrahim, a voter, said they were still expecting more turnout of women as the day was still young.
The Chairman, African Business Roundtable, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, was accredited around 10.15 a.m. at the unit which is under Yola-North LGA.
Tukur is also aspiring for the PDP national chairmanship.
Ahmed Abdullahi, a staff of INEC, explained that the delay was caused by the long distance between polling units in the ward.
Malam Musa Abubakar, a voter, decried the delay in the arrival of? materials and called on INEC to create additional polling units in the ward to reduce the distance.
At the state polytechnic’s 11 polling units, accreditation started in earnest but had to be suspended due to shortage of indelible ink.
Presiding officer in-charge of the unit, Yakubu Sufyan, said he was forced to improvise, using biro ink, “but it did not work out well,” he stated.
In Mubi and Michika LGAs accreditation also started on schedule with the two areas recording large turnout of women.