A man and a woman went to some wards in Surulere, Lagos, to beg constituents to vote in a by-election on Saturday.

Some Surulere residents took to social media to express disinterest in voting, while major political parties noted the low turnout for the House of Representatives bye-election for Surulere Federal Constituency 1.

Femi Gbajabiamila, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, created the vacuum when he vacated his Surulere constituency seat in the National Assembly to become President Bola Tinubu’s chief of staff after the 2023 election.

Most of the constituents eligible to vote chose to stay indoors or go about participating in other activities.

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“INEC is around, come and vote. Come outside and vote. We have started,” a woman with a bell announced as she walked down a street on Saturday.

A man in another area of Surulere also held a bell, which he rang as he urged residents to come outside and vote repeatedly.

FIJ saw that the voting areas were scantily populated.

Fuad Kayode Laguda of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adeola Adebanjo Damilola of the Labour Party (LP) and Afemighie Jerry of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were the more visible candidates vying in the Surulere by-election on Saturday.

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The media wing of the LP in Lagos reported that the by-election in Surulere was peaceful while asking more voters to come out to participate.

“My side for( sic) Randle… Nobody cares anymore… People didn’t even come out,” Byran Bhook replied to a post about Saturday’s by-election on X.

Another Surulere resident recounted how he and other residents insisted that security agents remove the roadblocks preventing them from driving out of their street.

One of the commuters pointed at the low turnout of voters and questioned why vehicular movements needed to be restricted.