Overcoming odds: Ilaje women navigate waters to vote in Ondo poll

Despite the challenges facing indigenous people of the riverine areas, several Ilaje women paddled their way out of the creeks and mangrove forests to vote at the just-concluded Ondo State governorship poll, in anticipation of a better future, writes photojournalist ELLIOT OVADJE, who covered the election The first light of dawn glimmers on the still