By Godwin Kingsley, Lafia Nasarawa State Governor Umar Tanko Al-makura has called on the people of Nasarawa State to device other means of expressing their grievances rather than violence.
The governor made the call shortly after he cast his votes at Lungu/Wambai polling unit at Gyan ward, Saturday.
Governor Al-makura also expressed satisfaction at the pace in which the election was being conducted but attributed the delay in the arrival of election materials to the bottle-neck process of delivering it.
Earlier when Prompt News Online went round some polling units in the state, voters in Doma local government area were protesting the none availability of result sheets at the polling units.
Our correspondent who monitored the exercise reports that voters in Kofan Maduachi and Kofan Dantshoho polling units in Maudauchi ward insisted that the voting would not commence
until the result sheet were provided.
Umar Omadefu, the presiding officer at Kofan Madauchi polling unit told our correspondents that he was still waiting for his supervisor to bring the result sheets as at 12 noon.
“As you can see the voters have been waiting since morning but we cannot start unless all the materials are ready,” Omadefu said.
However, at the Angwan Akubi polling unit in of Sabon-geri ward, voters were seen on queue being accredited in an orderly manner.
The Presiding officer, Rabiu Attah said all material for the election had arrived at the polling unit as at 10 am, adding that voting would commence at 1:30 pm
Prompt News Online reports that voters turn out in the area was impressive as women and youth were seen en masse waiting to be accredited.
There was heavy security presence as Military Armoured Personnel carriers (APC) were seen on patrol.
