Dare Babalola
Former Senator Shehu Sani has claimed that the people of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) do not like to vote.
In a terse post made via his verified X handle on Saturday, the former lawmaker, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the Senate said residents of the FCT are waiting for restrictions of movements to be lifted for them to continue with their day-to-day activities.
The former lawmaker wrote, “Abuja people seem not interested in voting.
“They are just waiting for the movement restrictions to be lifted so that they can go about their normal businesses.”
His remark is coming as the FCT area council election is underway with low turnout.
There are low turnouts in various polling units across the nation’s capital city.
The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoleye Sowore, had earlier attributed the low voter turnout at the FCT Area Council elections to President Bola Tinubu signing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law.
Sowore made the assertion while speaking with journalists at the 001 Polling Unit, LEA Primary School, Kabusa, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), where he said a lot of Nigerians currently have lost confidence and trust in the electoral process.
He said, “What we have discovered is that more and more of our people are no longer voting, and I think it was made adverse by the newly signed electoral law, which doesn’t give transparency to the oxygen it needs because democracy needs one oxygen, that’s trust.
“The moment trust is lost, people stay at home because there is nothing more voluntary than voting – you take your money, you take your time, and if you feel like the thing is not going to produce the results you want, you don’t leave your house.”
