Linus Aleke, Abuja
The Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections in parts of Nasarawa State has been characterized by acute low turn out of voters.
At the 009 polling unit NAGIS, Mararaba, polling officials who arrived and set up early are patiently waiting for few voters who walks in lonely to exercise their franchise.
This was in contrast to the February 25, presidential and national assembly elections, where voters trooped out enthusiastically early in the morning to exercise their franchise.
Few electorates at the polling units who had exercised their franchise were seen in clusters of two and three persons forecasting the likely outcome of the elections in the state and lamenting the low turn out of voters in the area.
The low turn out of voters is not unconnected with the outcome of the Presidential and Parliamentary elections and the untold hardship suffered by most voters due to late arrival of polling officials and inability to locate the polling units following a review of the units before the commencement of the 2023 polls by INEC, a voter, Franklin Ado, told ThisNigeria.
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Another voter, Charles Abugu blamed the avoidable voter apathy on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He said that feelings of most electorate in Nigeria now is that their votes do not count.
He said that INEC’s inability to transmit the results of the presidential election to the IReV as the commission promised Nigerians was the major factor that triggered the voter apathy.
