INEC reveals guidelines for Edo Guber Poll

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has listed the guidelines and the timetable for the governorship election holding in Edo State on September 10, 2016, report from Benin City, Edo State reveals.

According to INEC, Party Primaries will hold from 2nd June to the 4^th of July, 2016, campaigns will commence on Sunday 10th June, 2016, while the official register of voters for the election will be published on the August 11, 2016. The election proper will take

place on September 10, 2016.

New Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC in Edo State, Mr. Sam Olumekun, gave the guidelines, just as the Governor of the State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole urged him to flush out corrupt INEC officials who were fingered for aiding electoral fraud in the last general

elections.

Speaking during a meeting with the new REC who paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Benin City, Governor Oshiomhole said, “allow me, on behalf of the government and the good people of Edo State, across all the party divide to welcome you to Edo State and to
pray God almighty to protect you as he has protected your predecessors, guide you, give you wisdom, courage and robust energy to superintend over the preparations and the conduct of the forthcoming election and beyond. I am a believer as some of your officers on ground may have briefed you. I am a believer and a preacher of one man, one vote because for too long the promise of democracy was compromised in our country and my campaign mantra was that you must fight election fraud, not because of me but because of our country”.

The governor added, “it was clear to me that unless you have accountable government, poverty will remain endemic and society will remain unsafe. But I am happy that several years down the line, we have played our part and contributed our quota in the struggle to entrench real democracy and uphold one man one vote. And I am happy you said this: the people must take ownership of this process, not as distant miserable spectators, but as active drivers and participants of the democratic process of which INEC has an extremely critical role to play, like the role of a referee”.

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