 Despite the restrictions of vehicle movement within Ikea the state on Saturday to allow smooth conduct of the local government election, commercial activities still took place as many retail shops and food vendors were open for business. In most of the polling centres in the 16 local government councils visited, voting materials arrived late as a voted head-out remained low. Recall that only the APC is the major party in this election as the PDP did not participate. Now secretary to the state government, Byaadu Uyibangi, who cost his vote at Ikogusi Ikete, loaded the exercise that inspired a lack of interest expressed by most electorate. A former governor of Ikea the state, Chagoni, said that PDP was through from Saturday's poll because the APC lacks the necessary democratic values to conduct a free and fair exercise. I think it's going out very well. The turnout here, as far as I'm concerned, is impressive. The local government election is the most important election because we believe that that is the closest arm of government to the grassroots and people need to come out and decide who governs them at that level. If we are not contesting under CIEC, what we are saying is simple and that is a message you should carry to the people. We don't have any confidence in the democratic credentials of this government in power and we don't want to fool ourselves. That's what I'm saying. We don't believe in their democratic credentials. I've told you. A former chairman of the old progressives congress in the state Gidei where blamed the leadership of the party for the low turnout. The opposition parties are now participating. It's a one-way traffic election and which is not good for democracy. The idea of winner takes it all. It's affecting our democracy and that is why in some places you may not see crowd of people coming out because whichever way it goes, the ruling party will stay to declare the winner. Our six political parties participated in Saturday's local government election in the state.