Edo Election: INEC suspends results collation
Edo State Governorship election results collation temporarily suspended.
Edo Election: INEC suspends results collation.
Reports reaching Kpomkwem News is that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the collation of election results from the jist concluded Governorship election held in Edo State on Saturday.
Before the suspension, INEC has collated results of 16 local government areas, remaining two LGAs which are Oredo and Ikpoba Okha LGAs, and they are the two largest local councils with the most voting population.
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Suspending the LGA collations, the INEC State Returning Officer for the election and the Vice Chancellor Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, Prof Faruk Adamu, stated that the two local governments results were not ready.
“The results of the two remaining local governments are not yet ready. I don’t know when it would be ready but let’s reconvene by 5pm,”
he said, expressing optimism that the results might be ready by then.
