Sorting and counting of ballots have begun in different parts of the country after the governorship and State Assembly elections.
Voting ended about 2.30pm at most polling units across the over 170,000 polling units in the country.
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had arrived at the 176,606 polling units across the country with voting materials and set up sensitive and non-sensitive materials.
Accreditation and voting commenced in most voting units at 08:30am.
According to INEC, 87, 209,007 Nigerians have Permanent Voter Cards.
The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines were deployed in the polling units for the exercise.
Security officials including policemen were also seen at the polling units.
With February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections concluded and results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, albeit with the attendant legal tussles following, the battlegrounds shifted to the states.
In all, 18 political parties fielded candidates for the governorship elections slated to hold in 28 out of the 36 states of the Federation.
The governorship elections of eight states namely Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Osun and Ondo are held off-season due to litigations and court judgments.
Nonetheless, elections for members of State legislature held in the 36 states of the Federation.
Thousands of candidates filed out to compete for 993 State Houses of Assembly seats, according to data from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The 28 states where governorship elections held today are: Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara.