Sunday, 12 April 2015

Edo: Tight security, Oshiomhole laments card reader hitches -

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Reports from Edo State said although only the House of Assembly poll held there, there was low voters turn out. The election was held under  tight security. Voting materials arrived the entire 18 local government areas between 8:00am and 8:30am.

However, tension was more in Orhionmwon Local Government Council due to the senatorial election result expected from the area. Deputy Governor of the state, Dr Pius Odubu, described the exercise as peaceful but regretted the earlier problem encountered with card readers. Meanwhile, the results of the House of Assembly election trickling in indicated that the APC was winning many seats in the state.

In Ward 5, Ugboko Units 27 and 28, at about 11am, there was a clash between PDP and APC youths after a former Minister of State for Works, Engr. Chris Ogienwonyi, accused a PDP leader in the ward of confiscating over 40 PVCs belonging to some persons.

However, the PDP supporters insisted he should go to his unit, stressing that he was not supposed to be at the unit which they said was not his voting centre. However, APC supporters countered, asserting that a chieftain of the PDP in the state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who came to the area during the incident was also not supposed to be there.

In Edo Central, suspected thugs invaded some polling units in Ewohinmi and carted away ballot papers. The same situation occurred in Opoji.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who voted in his Iyamho ward 10 at about 3:10pm, lamented the failure of the card reader in some areas and urged INEC to fish out the bad eggs frustrating the efforts of the electoral body. The governor also said there was low voters’ turnout because of the frustration they experienced with the card readers.

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