By Billy Graham Abel Yola
The former Vice President of Nigeria and standard bearer of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has said that he is optimistic of winning yesterday’s polls.
Atiku said that Nigerians have been made to go through one of the most difficult seasons of their lives with the lack of naira notes for their daily upkeep.
Atiku made the remarks shortly after accreditation and voting in his polling unit at Ajia Ward 027 in Yola North.
“I am confident of winning the elections although I experienced a little challenge during accreditation.
“The naira redesign was a worthwhile exercise to the extent of curbing vote-buying, but on the accessibility of the new naira notes to the ordinary man on the streets, there is much work that need to be done,” he said.
Across the various polling units in Adamawa State, elections generally started quite smoothly except for some few delays mostly involving newly created polling units.
As at 8:30 a.m, accreditation of voters had begun and voters seen queuing orderly and peacefully to cast their votes.
A voter, Anslem Joseph Tiva, told Sunday Sun that “the voting has been going on safely and smoothly. I was here early, the INEC officials were here early and voting has been going on fine. INEC must be commended.”
One of the voter speak- ing to Daily Sun said, “We are worried because there is no INEC staff has been on ground and we went to our former polling units and the told us we have been relocated to this place but no one is here to attend to us.