President Bola Tinubu was absent at his Polling Unit 002, Ward F, on Sunday Adigun/Kaffi Street, Alausa, Ikeja, during the local government election in the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 1,389 voters registered at Tinubu’s polling unit.

NAN also reports that only 215 voters cast their votes at the unit.

Voting began at 10:00 a.m with accreditation and voting done simultaneously and voting ended at 3:00 p.m.

NAN reports that the election was peaceful with the presence of security operatives

Also, a former Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN), was absent at his polling unit, to vote for his party’s (APC) candidates for the chairmanship and councillorship elections.

Fashola, who was expected at the polling unit with the wife, Mrs Abimbola Fashola, was not seen throughout the election, which started at 8.00 a.m. and ended at 3.00 p.m.

Journalists, who waited for the former Minister of Power, Works and Housing, from 8.19 a.m. when the election at the unit started, left for other places after hours of waiting, while some stayed till the end on the possibility of him coming.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that voting for the Chairmanship and Councillorship election in Polling Unit 002, at State Junior Grammar School (Special), Itolo Street, Eric Moore, Surulere, started at 8.19 a.m, as at the time the INEC agents arrived to set up the unit.

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

The unit which had 1,355 registered voters, recorded only 213 voters who came to exercise their franchise. (NAN)