Lagos LG Polls: 70-Year-Old Woman Votes At Sanwo-Olu’s Ward

Defying her age, a 70-year-old woman on Saturday stormed the Adeniji/Adele polling unit, Ward 006, at the Lagos Island East to cast her vote. 

Voting commenced at exactly 8:00 AM at St. Stephen Nursery and Primary School within the premises, which has two polling units, ward 006 and ward 007.

Ward 006 has 634 registered voters, including the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Ward 007 has 667 registered voters, and some of the residents are already exercising their rights by voting for their choice of candidates.

Senior Special Assistant on New Media to the Governor, Jubril Gawat, was also spotted at the Adeniji/Adele polling unit, Ward 006, casting his vote.

Exactly one year after a landmark Supreme Court ruling on local government autonomy in Nigeria, 7,060,195 registered voters in Lagos State, Nigeria’s economic nerve centre and revenue powerhouse, head to the polls TODy, to elect their preferred representatives into chairmanship, vice-chairmanship and councillorship positions across the 20 local government areas (LGAs) and 37 local council development areas (LCDAs) in the state.