Collation of results of the presidential and National Assembly elections that was held in Edo State, Southern Nigeria, is on going at the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC office in Benin city the capital of Edo State Southern Nigeria.
It would be recalled that INEC said it is waiting for results sheets of the Presidential and National Assembly elections that was held across the 18 Local Government Areas of the state on Friday, February 25.
Meanwhile, some foreign observers are on ground and lots of Journalists waiting to capture the results from the local government areas.
The delay in the collation was due to an heavy down which lasted for close to an hour, yesterday which made voting to last longer, as some polling units voted till about 6pm.
The administrative secretary of INEC, Mrs Bassey Enang said just a few local governments where needed to bring in their results for voting to start.
Today’s election complemented the relatively peaceful voting which took place on the first day of the election, the 25th of February, except for the two local governments where there was violence in form of ballot snatching and destruction of INEC materials.
Perform Civic Duties
In Agbado Primary School, Oreado Local government, people came out in large numbers to perform their civic duties.
However, some lamented late arrival of voting materials, while ward 2 was found empty, due to the fact that electorates who were redistributed to the area didn’t show up.
It is no news that the decentralisation of voters to new polling units displaced some of the voters who couldn’t persevere to search for the polling units they have been redistributed to.
There was violence in ward 4, Idia College and Ozolua model college polling units in the state.
No heavy security
Generally, people conducted themselves well during the election even while there were no heavy security presence in most of the polling units monitored.
However, no INEC official was present at Omusi Primary School, ward 7 as at 10:30 in the state.
There weren’t road blocks by security agency in the state, despite the 7,000 police officers deployed to the state to enhance peace and security.
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