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Ibrahim Shekarau, presidential
candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and governor of Kano
State voted on Saturday at the Giginyu polling unit of Nassarawa Local
Government Area of the state.

Mr Shekarau
arrived at the polling unit at 12.10pm for accreditation and voted as
soon as voting commenced. While he was departing from the polling unit
at after voting, the security team that accompanied him to the unit
arrested a man for saying, “bamayi” (meaning we are not with you) to
the governor.

Mr Shekarau praised the large turnout of voters, saying that the exercise went peacefully in an orderly manner.

Voter apathy

However, there was
low turnout of voters at Jigirya polling unit, where the INEC official
conducting the election at the venue told NEXT correspondent that out
of the 1,268 eligible voters that registered at the unit, only 452 were
accredited at the centre at exactly 11.52am.

The official said:
“Our hope is that before the closure of accreditation, the voters will
come out and be accredited to cast their votes.” The situation was
different in Fagge B unit of Fagge Local Government Area; where the
turnout was large and impressive.

Muhammad Sani
Abacha, governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change
(CPC) who voted at Fagge B Ward expressed satisfaction with the
turnout, saying it was impressive.

It was also
observed that election materials arrived at all the polling units in
time, while the INEC adhoc staff said there was no report of any
violence within Kano city at the time of filing this report.

In Rogo Local Government Area which is
almost 150 kilometres away from Kano metropolis, election materials
arrived on time, but low turnout was also recorded at various polling
units of Zarewa, Bari, Rogo town and Zoza towns of the local government
area.</