Voting in the presidential and National Assembly elections will begin throughout Nigeria at 8am today. The elections initially scheduled for 16 February, was delayed by the Independent National Electoral Commission by one week, over logistics challenges.
But on Friday, INEC chairman, Mahmood Jega, said the commission is ‘more than ready’ to conduct the election, seen more as a two-horse race between the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC faces the challenge of re-election from Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the PDP.
As part of the enlightenment of what to expect at polling booths, INEC said three ballot boxes will be available at polling centres, a red one for the presidential election, a black one for the senate election and the green ballot box for the House of Representatives election.
Out of 84 million registered voters, 72.775 million Nigerians will be able to cast their ballots. They were the people who collected the permanent voters card, before the deadline.
