The recent fuel scarcity looming across the country has forced electorates in Kogi state to opted for water transportation in order to enable them participate in today’s gubernatorial election taking place in the state.
The fuel scarcity bedeviling the nation has taken its tow on the people of the state who have had to bother about how they will cast their votes in the much anticipated poll.
Owing to the high cost of road transportation occasioned by the scarcity, voters in the state now see the water ways as a convenient and cheaper way of moving around to be part of the process of choosing the next governor of the state.
A businessman, Mallam Saliu Mohammed, told NAN that it would take between 40 and 45 minutes to get to Dekina from Shintakun, adding that the boat ride across the river enabled him to tidy things up at his shop in Lokoja before living to perform his civic right in Dekina.
In the same vein, Chairman of Private Boat Owners Association, Ganaja branch, Mr Siaka Musa, attested to the business boom his memmbers have experienced due to today’s voting, noting that If not for the election, people would not have resorted to the water ways in this manner.
“This is our own way of contributing to the success of the election. People moved through this place well, well, today, even more than December period and we are also making a lot of money. We thank God for this,he said.
Meanwhile, the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the All Progressives Congress-led federal government of trying to use the military to rig the gubernatorial election in the state.
However, the deputy inspector general of police deployed to oversee security in the state, Leroy Wamaka has vowed to deal with anyone who foments trouble during the exercise.
Speaking at a media chat, the DIG who is also in charge of operations at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, said there will be restriction of movement on Saturday, November 21, from 6:30am till the election exercise is concluded.
The fuel scarcity bedeviling the nation has taken its tow on the people of the state who have had to bother about how they will cast their votes in the much anticipated poll.
Owing to the high cost of road transportation occasioned by the scarcity, voters in the state now see the water ways as a convenient and cheaper way of moving around to be part of the process of choosing the next governor of the state.
A businessman, Mallam Saliu Mohammed, told NAN that it would take between 40 and 45 minutes to get to Dekina from Shintakun, adding that the boat ride across the river enabled him to tidy things up at his shop in Lokoja before living to perform his civic right in Dekina.
In the same vein, Chairman of Private Boat Owners Association, Ganaja branch, Mr Siaka Musa, attested to the business boom his memmbers have experienced due to today’s voting, noting that If not for the election, people would not have resorted to the water ways in this manner.
“This is our own way of contributing to the success of the election. People moved through this place well, well, today, even more than December period and we are also making a lot of money. We thank God for this,he said.
Meanwhile, the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the All Progressives Congress-led federal government of trying to use the military to rig the gubernatorial election in the state.
However, the deputy inspector general of police deployed to oversee security in the state, Leroy Wamaka has vowed to deal with anyone who foments trouble during the exercise.
Speaking at a media chat, the DIG who is also in charge of operations at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, said there will be restriction of movement on Saturday, November 21, from 6:30am till the election exercise is concluded.
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