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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Despite fears of insecurity, which many have said may cause voter apathy in today\u2019s election in Anambra State, DAILY POST reports that there is massive voters turnout in all the polling units visited within the Central senatorial zone.<\/p>\n

In Amawbia, Enugwu-Ukwu, Ogidi and other areas visited, the turnout was high, with a long queue of voters, waiting to be accredited for voting.<\/p>\n

Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Nkem Okeke who spoke on the massive turnout attributed it to the decision of the Federal government to deploy massive security in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people are very relaxed as you can see. There is no apprehension at all. People have no reason not to come out, because they are confident of the security,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Despite fears of insecurity, which many have said may cause voter apathy in today\u2019s election in Anambra State, DAILY POST reports that there is massive voters turnout in all the polling units visited within the Central senatorial zone. In Amawbia, Enugwu-Ukwu, Ogidi and other areas visited, the turnout was high, with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":52934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,4557,254],"class_list":["post-52935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-anambra-election","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nAnambra election: Massive voters\u2019 turnout in central zone - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Despite fears of insecurity, which many have said may cause voter apathy in today\u2019s election in Anambra State, DAILY POS ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-massive-voters-turnout-in-central-zone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anambra election: Massive voters\u2019 turnout in central zone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite fears of insecurity, which many have said may cause voter apathy in today\u2019s election in Anambra State, DAILY POS ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-massive-voters-turnout-in-central-zone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-06T13:36:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-06T14:12:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/img-61868d1e7d7ba.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-massive-voters-turnout-in-central-zone#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-massive-voters-turnout-in-central-zone\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Anambra election: Massive voters\u2019 turnout in central zone\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-06T13:36:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-06T14:12:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-massive-voters-turnout-in-central-zone\"},\"wordCount\":144,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-massive-voters-turnout-in-central-zone#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/11\/img-61868d1e7d7ba.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Anambra election\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-massive-voters-turnout-in-central-zone#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-massive-voters-turnout-in-central-zone\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-massive-voters-turnout-in-central-zone\",\"name\":\"Anambra election: Massive voters\u2019 turnout in central zone - 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