Corps Members Protest As Voters Lament Polls Delay

Some corps members expected to be on election duty today with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have embarked on a protest over non-payment of their allowance in Lagos.

The corps members, who are protesting at the Ikosi High School area of Lagos State, are refusing to move to their respective polling stations.

“No money, no movement,” the corps members could be heard chanting.

Meanwhile, some voters at polling unit 019, Ita Aro square, Aga/Ijimu ward in Ikorodu, Lagos Sate, have lamented the delay in the commencement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections at the polling unit.

The voters, who spoke with The PUNCH, expressed worries that the election officials, who were already behind schedule, had yet to begin the preliminary processes that would precede the voting exercise.

As of 9:33 am, there was no INEC official in sight, neither were any security officers seen.

Voters, many of whom were aged, were seen sitting on plastic chairs while hemp-smoking hoodlums paraded the venue of the polls, arguing intermittently as voters continued to anticipate the arrival of INEC officials.

The Deputy Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, Funke Akindele, is expected to cast her vote at the polling unit sometime later today.