Lagos: A former Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN), was absent at his polling unit on Saturday, to vote for his party’s All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Chairmanship and Councillorship election
Fashola, who was expected to be at the polling unit with his wife, Mrs Abimbola Fashola, was not seen throughout the election, which started at 8:00 a.m. and ended at 3:00 p.m.
It is recalled that Fashola was also absent during the 2021 local government election.
Journalists, who had waited for the former Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, who was scheduled to arrive at 8:19 a.m. when the election at the unit started, left for other places after hours of waiting. At the same time, some stayed until the end, hoping for his arrival.
The voting for the Chairmanship and Councillorship election in Polling Unit 002, at State Junior Grammar School (Special), Itolo Street, Eric Moore, Surulere, started at 8:19 a.m., as the INEC agents arrived to set up the unit.
The unit, which is the venue where Fashola was expected to cast his vote, saw eligible voters trickling in. The unit, which had 1,355 registered voters, recorded only 213 voters who exercised their right to vote.