A network of civil society organizations who monitored yesterday’s elections, reports that sixteen people were killed in electoral violence across Nigeria.
Some one hundred and twenty thousand polling stations opened from seven o’ clock in the morning, although there were delays in the delivery of some materials and deployment of staff.
The Situation Room umbrella group of pro-democracy groups, which is monitoring the vote, said that sixteen dead have been recorded across eight states”.
They also noted that violence recorded included “disruption of voting, ballot boxes and papers set ablaze by political thugs in Lagos.
Meanwhile, the Head of ECOWAS Election Observer Mission to Nigeria, Madam Ellen Jonhson Sirleaf, led a delegation of election monitors to some polling centres in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Madam Sirleaf according to reports, led her team to the Durumi II Primary School polling centre with eight voting points to monitor the conduct of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in the country.
Mrs. Sirleaf, who arrived the polling centre at about 8.55 am waited patiently until the first female voter, Mrs. Comfort Akale, cast the first ballot of the polling unit at about fifty minutes past nine o’ clock in the morning.
The head of the ECOWAS election observer mission departed the polling unit without a word to newsmen.
NAN also reports that the polling centre was crowded due to the large turnout of eligible voters.
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