Lagos by-election: Ex-governor, Fashola, absent at polling unit

A former governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN), was inexplicably absent at his polling unit to vote for his party’s (APC) candidate for the Surulere 1 House of Representatives.

The former minister of works, who was expected at the polling unit with his wife, Mrs Abimbola Fashola, was not seen throughout the election.

Journalists, who waited for the former Minister of Power, Works, and Housing from 8 a.m. when the election started, left for other places after hours of waiting, while some stayed till the end on the possibility of his coming.

One of the party members who pleaded anonymity said that the former governor was actually expected to come around to exercise his franchise.

”We actually expected him but along the line it was clear that he will not be coming again. I heard that he is not in town,” the party member said.

According to a report by NAN, voting for the Surulere Federal Constituency 1 in Polling Unit 002, at State Junior Grammar School (Special), Itolo Street, Eric Moore, Surulere, started at 8.00 a.m, as INEC agents arrived on time to set up the unit.

The unit, which is the venue where Fashola was expected to cast his vote, saw voters trickling in.

The unit, which had 750 registered voters, recorded only 45 voters who came to exercise their franchise.