Voting has begun in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states for the governorship elections in the three states.
Voting began around 08:30am in some polling units according to reports by Channels Television’s correspondents in the three states.
The accreditation of voters and voting also began concurrently, followed by the arrival of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission–INEC, at the polling units with sensitive and non-sensitive materials.
The decision of who will become the next governor of the three states lies on the electorate as more than five million voters in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states go to the polls today.
A few analysts have said that the governors of the three states for the next four years will be determined by youths and the middle-aged as they form over 60 per cent of the total number of PVCs collected in the three states.
In Imo State, INEC revealed the number of the registered voters as 2, 419,922 and Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, collected as 2,318,919 with youths and the middle age demographical groups having 33% (about 801,000) and 32% (about 783,000).
In Kogi State, the number of registered voters totalled 1,932,654 and PVCs collected was 1,833,160.
For Bayelsa State, the total number of registered voters is 1,056,862 whilst total PVCs collected numbered at at 1,017,613.
