A former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele, has raised alarm over alleged irregularities in the ongoing local government elections, calling for the outright cancellation of the exercise across the state.

Speaking during an interview on Nigeria Info on Saturday, the elder stateswoman decried her inability to cast her vote due to what she described as deliberate disenfranchisement.

Sharing her personal experience, Bucknor-Akerele said she visited her polling unit only to discover that her name was missing from the voter register.

She said, “I have been to my own unit, my name is not there. There are units supposed to be in front of a co-hotel; they have brought them here to Ajose Adeogun.”

According to her, the relocation of polling units without notice and the absence of voters’ names were part of a coordinated plan to manipulate the election outcome.

The former deputy governor did not mince words in accusing the ruling party of electoral misconduct.

“There is a clear effort to rig the election in favour of one party. Many people are not able to vote because they have completely disrupted all the polling units,” she stated.

She argued that the disorganisation was not coincidental but deliberate sabotage of the electoral process.

Senator Bucknor-Akerele urged the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) to take swift action by nullifying the exercise, citing widespread disenfranchisement and logistical failures.