Politics
Nigerians Pay N200 To Watch INEC’s Presidential Election Votes Collation At Viewing Centres!
The interest in the outcome of the just conducted Presidential Election is intense.
And particular focus is on who emerged the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the next for years between re election seeking incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party and All Progressive Congress, Muhammadu Buhari.
Both PDP and APC have embarked on all round the country vigorous campaigns that stepped in and out of the borders of decorum.
And as supporters of the two candidates lay claim to victory based on unofficial results, the official announcements by electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission has placed them head to head.
The results which comes at intervals however put the APC candidate ahead with some thousands votes.
Campaigners of both candidate insist the remaing vote count would swing victory their way – with Buhari loyalist making more noise out of it with assertions of having the sympathy of outstanding areas.
The interest generated by the incoming result attained such an height that, nigeria’s pay N200( Two hundred naira) at viewing centres and fun places to watch the official
vote compilation by INEC live.
The fee is to avoid falling victim of irregular power supply.
The viewing centres and fun places profiting from this enterprise utiilise power generating set.
Only big games of football, the sport that has become a national passion with cult following attract this kind of attention.
And according to a source ‘ and obviously, the interest at play vastly over shadows that of football
Results of the Presidential election held on Saturday March 28 with spill overs into the following day are still on going at press time.


