The INEC officials there said they are waiting for their senior officials to attend to the machine.
9.02am
I like the integrity of the system- Buhari
Tony Akowe, Katsina
APC presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari has commended INEC’s arrangement for the election.
Speaking after being accredited at his polling booth in Daura, Katsina on Saturday, Buhari said he liked the integrity of the system.
“ I am very pleased about it. That means that if people are allowed to vote, rigging will be virtually impossible.
“I think that INEC have done very well and I have said it to your colleagues elsewhere that from their presentations to the National Council of States which I happened to be a member, this time around, INEC has done extremely well.”
9.00am
Anxious voters wait for INEC officials in Alimosho
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials were not on duty in several parts of Alimosho Local Government Area as at 9am
They were not in sight at various polling units around Iyana Ipaja, Akowonjo, Egbeda axis of the council area.
Anxious voters lamented the absence of the officials while a number of them engaged in discussion about the situation.
The situation was the same at a polling unit on Idimu Road,Egbeda, where the Deputy Governor of Lagos State,Mrs Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire was expected to vote.
8.54am
Voting materials arrives Jonathan’s unit
From Joseph Jibueze, Otuoke
Voting materials have arrived the polling unit where President Good Jonathan will vote.
The materials were brought to the unit in Ogbia Ward 12 by 8.24am.
There are two polling units in Otuoke, one directly across the president’s country home.
As at 9am, electoral officers were still sorting out and arranging the materials.
Even before the materials arrived, journalists, including foreign media, had arrived the venue, awaiting the electoral officers’ arrival.
No fewer than 50 journalists are in Otuoke to cover President Jonathan voting.
Everyone is now waiting for accreditation to begin and for the president to come out for accreditation.
Security agents include men and women of the Department of State Security (DSS), police, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) are guarding the unit.
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