The Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello finally casted his vote in his polling unit at Agasa in Okene local government council after the faulty card reader was replaced.
The Unit 11 where the governor casted his vote comprises Upokoro-Agasa ward.
Before he finally casted his vote alongside his wife, Hajia Rashida Bello the card reader was bad and it took INEC an hour to replaced it before he could vote.
He however expressed the hope that his was an isolated case.
“I am disappointed at INEC, and I hope my own is an isolated case,” he said.
However their is large turnout of people for the election. Most of the polling units visited by our correspondent people queue on the line and after accreditation they voted in peaceful order without any problem.
In most polling units, their was no presences of security agents, however, in Ihima, where the senatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Barrister Natasha Akpoti comes from, people came out to vote but the area was over flooded with security agents.
In Lokoja, the situation was calm, people came out to vote just like other places.
