country,” she said, sipping a cold drink in the sunshine.
“I will vote Buhari for presidency and Jimi Agbaje for Lagos state governorship,” she said, splitting her vote between the APC for the country and the PDP at the local level.
Wheelchair user Emily Adeyemi, 69, was accredited before others at her polling station.
“I was disappointed when I could not vote yesterday. But I am happy that I have been accredited to vote today,” she said in Yoruba, which is widely spoken in the southwest.
“I will be happy to my grave for this opportunity to bring about a change in Nigeria through my vote.”
A few metres away from a polling centre, six members of a street gang known locally as “Area Boys” puffed on joints of marijuana and swigged from bottles of beer.
“We could not collect our PVCs (permanent voters card). We’re just trying to suppress our disappointment with these weeds,” said one of them, his eyes bloodshot.
The threat of violence is never far from Nigerian elections and there have been calls for calm after some 1,000 people were killed in 2011 after the results came through.
Area Boys, hired by local politicians for booze and cash, have often been blamed.
There have been sporadic incidents countrywide and suspected Boko Haram attacks in the northeast but the vote involving some 68.8 million voters in a country of 173 million has been largely peaceful.
“It’s very orderly. Voters are conducting themselves properly. No problem,” police inspector Yemi Adegboyega said at one Lagos polling station.
An electoral officer on the Lagos Mainland part of the city also said the process was now going to plan.
“We had challenges on Saturday especially with the card reader but it is working fine now,” she said.
Those that voted — whether on Saturday as planned or Sunday by default — saw it as an achievement.
“I have voted and I am very happy about it,” said John Uche, who lives in Oworonshoki. “There was no problem at all. I was the first person at the polling centre today.”