Edo State – Voters across Edo State will troop out to vote in an election that will decide who occupies the Dennis Osadebey Government House for the next four years.
The Independent National Electoral Commission says 1.72 million residents of the State are eligible to vote in the election.
However, going by past experience, less than 50 per cent of the persons on the register may turn up to vote.
Voters across the 18 Local Government Areas, 192 Wards and 2,627 polling units are expected to use their ballot papers to determine if they want the incumbent Governor, Godwin Obaseki, who is contesting on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to continue in office or if they want any of the other 13 candidates on the ballot to replace him.
Among the 13, the strongest opposition to Obaseki’s second term was unarguably the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC Pastor Osagie Ize- Iyamu. Indeed, Obaseki and Ize- Iyamu were the only candidates among the 14 believed to have structures to win the election.
In a way, today’s election is a replay of the 2016 gubernatorial election of the State in which Obaseki and Ize-Iyamu were also the major candidates.
Obaseki, who contested on the platform of APC defeated Ize Iyamu, then of PDP, in the 2016 battle by a slim margin.
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However, the candidates have now switched platforms with Obaseki now the flag bearer of PDP while Ize Iyamu is the candidate of APC.
7.30am: INEC officials have arrived at Agbado primary school polling unit and set up had commence ahead of accreditation and voting.
At 8:00am, voters are already on ground but INEC officials yet to arrive at Polling Unit 1&2, Ward 02, GRA/Oredo.
Source – https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/
