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Edo 2016: APGA candidate, Onaiwu, calls for another postponement
The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Osaro Onaiwu, has called for another postponement of the rescheduled September 28 governorship election in Edo State.
According to Onaiwu, a former Director General of the PDP Governors Forum, the governorship polls must be organized to accommodate candidates in the 2016 November/December West African Senior School Certificate Examinations in the state.
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The APGA candidate insisted that the September 28 date was not feasible because some students were expected to write Physics practical, Food Nutrition 1 and 2 papers and two other papers on that day.
According to him, the clash of dates would lead to the disenfranchisement of the students and also prevent them from voting for his party, arguing that there is nothing wrong in holding the election on October 1.
Onaiwu said: “On Wednesday 28, there is Physics. After the holidays, I think I am going to do a letter to WAEC and INEC, alerting them that (September) 28 is not convenient. We must accommodate those people writing exams.
“They should take it to October 1. There is nothing wrong if we do the election on Independence Day, as long as we must have a governor that would be sworn in on November 12.”
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews…
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