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🧍‍♂️ Empty Streets, Quiet Polling Units

Despite the rollout of local government elections in Lagos on Saturday, polling units across the state saw shockingly low voter turnout. Streets that typically buzz during electoral events were silent. Electoral officials were present — but voters weren’t. Eyes Of Lagos reports,
🗣️ “Our Votes Don’t Count Anymore”

Residents across Lagos expressed frustration, pointing to a lack of transparency in past elections as their main reason for refusing to vote.

“What’s the point in voting when our votes don’t count?” asked Godfrey Johnson, one of the few voters who showed up. “Until credible elections become a reality, people will continue to opt out.”

😑 Apathy at the Grassroots

For many, Saturday’s elections were just another page in a tired cycle of disappointment.
Aofeek Sumonu, 41, shared his view:

“This has become routine. People tend to ignore local government elections. It’s the governorship and presidential contests that attract real attention and participation.”

This sentiment was evident across multiple LGAs, where polling stations sat mostly empty, and electoral officials waited for voters that never came.
📉 The Bigger Problem

This low turnout trend underscores a growing disconnect between the public and grassroots governance. While presidential and gubernatorial elections still generate national buzz, many Lagosians seem to see local elections as toothless and symbolic.

Analysts warn this could damage democratic accountability at the local level, where decisions on education, health, sanitation, and community projects are actually made.


https://eyesoflagos.com/lagosians-shun-lg-polls-say-our-votes-dont-count/

cc: Mynd44 ,Nlfpmod , Seun

The turn out is a referendum on APC in Lagos. That is how many they are less than 10% of Lagos voters.

Why waste your time and resources when we all know where the corrupt electoral umpire's allegiance lies

Mjshexy:
Why waste your time and resources when we all know where the corrupt electoral umpire's allegiance lies

Is that the same one that helped LP win Lagos state in the last Presidential elections?

aswani:
Is that the same one that helped LP win Lagos state in the last Presidential elections?

Presidential is different from Local Government.

Everyone knows that the Party in power will ensure it's party wins the local government, in all states of Nigeria

Only APC members came out to vote though, for instance in Ikorodu we now know that APC members are 106,000. We are taking notes when it gets to 2027 by God's grace 😹

obonujoker:
Presidential is different from Local Government.

Everyone knows that the Party in power will ensure it's party wins the local government, in all states of Nigeria

Don't mind him,let him keep wallowing in ignorance.

Y'all read down, my DM is open.

obonujoker:
Presidential is different from Local Government.

Everyone knows that the Party in power will ensure it's party wins the local government, in all states of Nigeria

That is fair enough, so not something unique to Lagos state then.

In fact, INEC doesn't conduct LG elections as it happens, something else worth bearing in mind.

This is the dangerous voters/electoral apathy and logjam that INEC and the compromised judiciary have caused in determining who wins elections and no more the electorate.

The viscous cycle will continue till the kind of French peasants revolution against the elites of their time will happen. Woe betides anyone that will be caught in it.