Lagos--Life returned to normal in Nigeria's financial hub of Lagos on Sunday after the presidential election. Worshippers walked to church, shops and eateries reopened and traffic was on the streets.
But for some like 71-year-old Amidu Adegoke and more than 100 others outside a polling station in Oworonshoki area of the city, voting was not over yet.
The retired carpenter's polling station was one of about 300 across the country affected on Saturday by either a lack of election materials or staff or a failure of voter identification technology.
"My 32-year-old graduate son has been jobless for the past seven years and I am getting old," he told AFP as he waited patiently in the scorching sun for the accreditaton process to start.
"I will vote for a man who I know can guarantee my family a good future. Life is tough now," he said, wiping sweat from his brow.
The close-run campaign between President Goodluck Jonathan and the main opposition candidate, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, has energised voters in Nigeria.
Instead of a foregone conclusion for the incumbent, Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) are seen as close to inflicting defeat on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the first time.
The prospect of the first democratic transfer of power in the country's history has seen large crowds at polling stations, with reports of patients being carried out of hospital to vote.
AFP
