It was an unsavoury sight at a polling unit in the ongoing Anambra gubernatorial election, today, Umudim Akasi Polling Unit 019, Agulu Ward 8, Anaocha Local Government Area to be precise.
There, 96-year-old woman Mrs Elizabeth Onike wept bitterly.
The reason: she was denied her right to cast her vote in the election, and unable to take it, she burst out in tears, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The elderly woman had been told by an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that she would not be allowed to vote because she did not a valid voter card.
Identified as a regular voter, the woman expressed her disappointment in being denied the opportunity to exercise her franchise.
“I have been voting at this polling unit. I voted in the last election, but the INEC officials said I have no valid voter card.
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“My children are outside the state, and none is at home with me.
“I am pained that I am not going to vote in this election to determine who will be my next governor,” she said in Igbo dialect.
She was among the 830 registered voters at the polling booth.
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