Nigeria: Niger East By-Election - IBB, Abdulsalam Absent at Polls

31 August 2014

The Niger East by-election conducted yesterday witnessed low turnout of voters, even as two former Nigerian leaders, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and General Abdulsalami Abubakar, did not vote in their hilltop polling unit in Chanchaga local government area of the state.

Also, the governor of Niger State, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu, did not vote in the bye-election.

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