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Though he flayed the late arrival of electoral materials and officials, Osinbajo said the process was “smooth but slow.”
Speaking shortly after casting his vote by 8:10pm at his polling 033 Unit 4 in Victoria Garden City (VGC) Lagos, the former Lagos Attorney General said the long wait was worth the stress.
According to him, “The accreditation was painfully slow but what matters is that it is worth the wait.
“One has been able to vote and that is what counts. It doesn’t matter how much one has gone through. The joy is that voting can take place despite the logistics challenges.”
Osinbajo, who arrived at the VGC recreational park at exactly 8:20am, was not accredited until 2:05pm.
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) arrived the voting centre around 10:30am, more than two hours after accreditation should have commenced.
Voters, who besieged the unit, waited patiently under the shades in the park.
To while away boredom, many of them greeted Osinbajo warmly before demanding for photo shots with him.
A smiling Osinbajo obliged, exchanging pleasantries with a handful of them.
When the officials arrived, accreditation didn’t start until 1:15pm owing to the malfunctioning of the two card readers attached to the unit.
It took the delivery of back-up readers before the process could commence.
Voting eventually commenced by 6:05pm with accredited voters refusing to leave the centre until they had performed their civic obligations.
Osinbajo, who refused to jump the queue, told reporters that he was motivated to wait all the way to exemplify the new Nigeria the APC is working hard to build.
“I think it’s all in the spirit of the new Nigeria. Everyone has to learn to be patient and queue to get things done.”
His wife, Dolapo, said there were no qualms with having to wait.
“It’s part of the bargain and we have to always wait because that is life,” she stated.
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