• As market fire doused concerns over presidential poll
Penultimate Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly polls threw up upsets here and there. There were many first time voters, even as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ran into troubles over the use of its technological innovation for a credible process.
While the presidential running mates of two out of the three leading candidates, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed of Labour Party (LP), lost their states, that of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kashim Shettima, escaped such embarrassment.
