At 10:42 am, representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission came to voting place 023, Alhaji Kukawa, in the Lawan Bukar neighborhood of Maiduguri.
The location is Kashim Shettima’s voting district, the vice presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress.
The officials came two hours after 8:00 am, when voting was supposed to start, according to INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s announcement on Friday. They arrived in a grey 2015 Toyota Camry and a Mercedes C180.
When the voter waited in line for voting and accreditation, our correspondent saw that the authorities who arrived with security helped set up the polling place.
About an hour earlier, Shettima arrived at the same spot but left soon after discovering that INEC officials were yet to arrive.
He is billed to return as voting is now in progress.
