Witnesses say the visibly happy IDPs have turned the polling units to reunion grounds of sort, as family and friends were reunited amid tears.
Eyewitnesses say accreditation has been completed at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Bama, Maiduguri, which is reportedly the first unit to have full accreditation with card reader in Borno state.
Pulse gathered that the polling centres for the IDPs in Maiduguri are not just for election activities but also as reunion grounds for many brothers, sisters and friends who have been separated from one another after Boko Haram attacks drove them out their villages.
The attacks separated mothers from their children, husbands from their wives and brothers from their siblings.
Reports say these visibly happy people exchanged warm embraces amidst years of joy.
However, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Samuel Usman, in Borno had on Friday, March 27, said over 70, 000 IDPs would be able to exercise their civic duties at polling centres within Maiduguri.
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