Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, former governor of Lagos State ex-minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was conspicuously absent at his polling unit, to vote for his party’s (APC) candidate for the Surulere 1 House of Representatives.
The immediate past minister of works was expected at the polling unit with the wife, Mrs Abimbola Fashola but was not seen throughout the election.
Newsmen that 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 him coming.
A party member 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 News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 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.
(NAN)
