LAGOS – Some prospective voters at a registration unit on Abule Nla Road, in Ebute Meta, Lagos, on Saturday expressed confidence in the ongoing INEC voters’ registration exercise, describing it as hitch-free.
A cross-section of voters at the registration unit told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that both the ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and prospective voters had conducted themselves orderly, since the commencement of the exercise.
Mr Idowu Adedeji said that INEC staff arrived the registration units as early as 8:00 a.m. and the exercise commenced immediately.
“I have been here since morning and the exercise had been going on smoothly. When I came in the morning, there was a long queue, I had to go back home to eat,” he said.
Another prospective voter, Mr Ishaq Ajayi, said that the exercise had witnessed an encouraging outcome.
“The huge number of persons that turned out showed that they had confidence in the exercise,” he said.
An All Progressive Congress (APC) party agent, Mr Adex Adeleye, commended INEC for a smooth exercise.
“Since morning, when we started the exercise, they was no problem. Everything went smoothly. There was no harassment from anybody.
“The INEC staff came here at 7:30 a.m. and they have been working all through. The turnout is satisfactory.
“There have been an average of 70 people registered daily at the unit since the commencement of the exercise,” he said.
An ad hoc staff of INEC, who spoke on condition of anonymity, corroborated what others had said earlier.
However, he added that the only problem they encountered was inadequate power supply for the INEC computers.
He said that the extra-life batteries they had could not sustain them.
“We were lucky that a good samaritan, whose business premises was close to our unit, helped us with power supply from his generating set.
He called on INEC to supply generating sets for the effective charging of their computers. (NAN)