By Giwa SHILE
Traders in Kwali Area Council of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) made brisk business as the March 9
Area Council elections went underway.
TBI Africa said a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondents who monitored the elections in the council reports that most of the polling units
recorded large turnout of both voters traders.
Some of the traders told NAN that the turnout was an opportunity for them to do business.
Miss Amina Idris and Mrs Agnes James who were seen selling water and soft drinks said they could not afford to stay back at home
knowing there was an opportunity to make money.
Idris said “I came to sell water and soft drinks to people that will be thirsty after standing on the queue for long.”
At the Town Hall Polling Unit Central Area in Kwali, traders out numbered voters.
Mrs Ladi Shaganlo, a 70-year old woman, said after casting her vote that
“those who would take over leadership must take care of the poor.”
Meanwhile, security was beefed up at all polling centres visited and at the Kwali office of the Independent National
Electoral Commission office.
