The Off-Circle governorship election in Kogi State witnessed the late arrival of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission at polling units in some parts of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that most places around Lokoja encountered late arrival of officials and materials.
INEC had announced that materials and officials were expected to arrive at their centres/ polling units by 6am.
Places like Adankolo, Lokongoma and Kpata encountered similar challenges.
Cornelius Stephen, a civil servant who came from Kano State to vote, expressed disappointment with INEC, which had assured of timely distribution of materials and arrival of officials at polling units across Kogi State.
Stephen said: “This election is different from what we experienced on February 25 and March 18 elections.
“You can see that it’s 7:40am already, yet only security personnel are around here at St Luke Primary School, Adankolo within Lokoja 1 Ward A.”
The officials for the ward, however, arrived at 8:15am and moved to their various polling units.
Abiola Choice, the Presiding Officer, said that they came late to St. Luke Primary School, Adankolo because of late distribution of materials at the RAC Centre in Crowder Memorial College, Lokoja.
Choice added: “Even after we got the materials from the RAC (Registration Area Centres), there was no vehicle to convey us to the polling units.
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“As you can see, we are trying to set the tables and also paste the voters registers on the walls for the voters to check their names to come forward for accreditation and voting.
“By God’s grace, in the next few minutes, we shall be done with the setting for the accreditation to commence.”
Again, there were no agents of the 18 participating political parties in some of the polling units.