Reports from Bayelsa State said President Goodluck Jonathan was accredited at about 10.55am at his Otuoke polling unit in an exercise characterised by low voters turnout.
The president was without his wife, Patience.
Unlike the presidential and National Assembly polls where Mr. President was subjected to about 50 minutes wait due to the malfunctioning of card readers, his accreditation, yesterday, took less than a minute.
STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTION IN OTUOKE
He later visited his mother, Madam Eunice Jonathan, at her residence, a walking distance from the polling unit.
Jonathan’s mother had earlier done her accreditation.
The president, in an interview with newsmen before he retired to his country home after the accreditation, expressed satisfaction with the exercise as, according to him, “INEC has probably rectified the card reader fault.”
He blamed the poor turn of voters across Bayelsa on the fact that there was no governorship election in the state.
He however expressed hope of PDP victory in the election.
In another development, the state assembly poll in Oruma community in Ogbia council area was marred by alleged hijack of election materials by suspected thugs.
Many eligible were said to have beaten a quick retreat to their homes when the hoodlums stormed the area and carted away election materials
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