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INEC adamant as students protest Edo election

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has refused to respond to Edo secondary school students demands for the postponement of the Saturday September 10, governorship election in the state.

The students had asked that the date for the election be shifted as it clashed with their Mathematics examination scheduled by the West African Examination Council (WAEC), on the same day.

They feared going ahead to conduct the election as scheduled will disenfranchised them as well as disorganise them. And based on these fears, the students stormed the Government House, Benin City, with placards bearing various inscriptions.

The protesting students also said they would kick against any plan to move them to other states for the Mathematics examination as planned by WAEC, arguing that sending them to another state to write the exam, would not only disorganise them but also put them at a disadvantage.

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Governor Oshiomhole in his response, promised to pass their protest letter to the President.

He added that the responsibility of fixing the governorship election in the state rested with INEC and that he was not carried along when September 10 date for the election was fixed.

Meanwhile, INEC on Monday declared its readiness to conduct the poll.

Professor Mohammad Kuna, the Special Adviser to INEC’s National Chairman, Mahmud Yakubu, disclosed the commission’s readiness to conduct the poll at a stakeholders’ meeting on public presentation of the security threat assessment for the governorship election in Edo State, organised by CLEEN Foundation in Benin City.

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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