The livestock dealers in Artisan Market, Enugu, mainly people from the northern part of the country have traveled home a day ahead of general elections.
The Chairman of the Market, Mr Musa Mohammed, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Enugu, said that 80 per cent of livestock sellers in the market had travelled to their various states to exercise their franchise.
He said that the remaining 20 per cent that did not travel would cast their votes as they registered in Enugu State.
The chairman said they had a union in the market and they had a meeting in January this year, mandating every one of them that did not register in Enugu to start saving money for transportation because they would all travel to exercise their civic right.
Mohammed said that though few of them did not travel because they had problem of transportation fare but the reason why the union pardoned them was because they joined the business few months ago.
The chairman prayed for a violence-free and fair election and urged anybody that would emerge as the president of this country to ensure that Nigeria remained one.
He thanked the incumbent for the peace that had been existing in the nation as a whole.
The chairman said though many of them came from the northern part of the country but had not witnessed security challenges since they came into Enugu.
NAN reports other northerner, including artisans, shoe menders and those working as private security guards in homes also travelled, maybe to perform their civic responsibility.
