At about 8:40 am on Saturday morning, residents of Olu- Akerele street, in the Ikeja area of Lagos State, protested and chased a party agent away.

When FIJ arrived, the residents were sending away a man they referred to as Agent.

They told this reporter that Olu-Akerele was one of the three polling units in the area, and that community leaders usually received benefits during elections but shared them among the members of the other two polling units.

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What these benefits were, and who the community leaders received the benefits from, they did not say, but they said they would not be voting and no elections would be held.

Residents could be heard saying, “If they give assembly leaders something, they won’t bring anything here.”

“We no dey see, dem go carry am go their house go share am, and now they want this place to vote,” said another resident.

“No Sikira, no Sikiru.”