#EdoDecides: INEC extends voting time at PUs where voting started late

Edo election

Voters waiting to exercise their civic right at Polling Unit 5, Ring Road, Benin City

Emmanuel Oloniruha

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has extended voting time at Polling Units (PUs) where the voting process in the ongoing Edo governorship election began late.

“To ensure that no voter is disenfranchised, the commission wishes to reiterate that, in line with our Regulations and Guidelines, voting will be extended wherever it commenced late and will continue until the last voter on the queue who arrived at the polling unit by 2.30 pm has voted,” INEC said in a statement by Mohammed Haruna, its National Commissioner and Member, Information and Voter Education Committee, on Saturday.

“Accordingly, we have drawn the attention of our office in Edo to ensure that, where necessary, there is adequate power supply from our back-up electric generators in the affected polling units or ward collation centres,” Haruna said

Haruna said INEC had continued to monitor the ongoing governorship election in Edo from its situation room at the National Headquarters in Abuja.

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He said the commission’s monitoring revealed there was early commencement of polls in many PUs, and the late commencement of same in some other locations.

.(NAN) (www.nannews.ng)

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