EDO ELECTION: INEC Chairman Insist Election Must Hold

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The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday said that the commission is ready for the Saturday Edo governorship election in Edo State, saying it won’t postpone the exercise.

The INEC boss who disclosed this in Benin, the state capital, said the election will go on even though the West African Senior School Certificate Examination was also scheduled to hold on the same day.
Yakubu, who was speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting assured that necessary measures for a hitch-free exercise has been put in place.
A total of 1,742 candidates are expected to sit Mathematics 1 and 2 papers on September 10, a development which sparked a protest by some of the affected candidates and parents on Monday.
There had also been calls for the postponement of the poll to a later date to allow the students exercise their rights to vote.

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