Party agents, combined team of soldiers and Policemen took over the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as non-sensitive materials are conveyed to all the 18 local government areas of Edo State amid tight security.
LEADERSHIP WEEKEND checks at the INEC office reveals that stern looking security men had barricaded the gate leading to the office, in an effort to wade off miscreants and trouble makers, just as international and local observers, including journalists struggle for accreditation.
There were also heavy traffic gridlocks at the INEC office, as security personnel conduct search on vehicles plying the Benin-Auchi expressway.
A PDP party agent, Hon Larry Ogieva, who spoke exclusively to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND expressed satisfaction at the security arrangement in INEC office, despite the fact that he is not aware of what was happening inside the office.
Speaking to journalists, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Kassim Geidam said the commission is determined to conduct a hitch free election with the cooperation of all agencies.
"We are right now trying to distribute the sensitive materials in the presence of all the party agents and at the end of the day we would move to the local government areas for further distribution. We are positive that the election would be free and fair, even as we expect Nigerians to be positive too."
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Whatever is the outcome in todays election in Edo State is critical to the future of the Nigerian Nation. PDP has breed of looters and rouges in governance of our nation and am not talking as a politician , I am simply a Nigerian who is able to sppeak eloquently without fear through the priviledge of living in country where individual freedom to speak responsibly is the norm . The country with enormous wealth to go round and educated reservour of human machinery to manage these abondant resources has failed the citizen is the tragedy. PDP is hated by intelligent citizens of Nigeria . The initial political capital in terms of ethnic loyalty has been overtaken by gross corruption and brazen incompetency from the Presidency to the mainstream political leadership. Nigerians have never been brutally exploited by their own home grown leadership than ever , not even under the ironical military regimes .Poverty, insecurity, inequality and low life expectancy have reduced the usually vibrant citizens to mere exisiting beings because of PDP exploitation of the wealth of the nation .Here's some assessment from foreign observers that led to refusal to align Boko Harem with Al-Quida as gobal terrorist organization and I quote "OIL IS FLOWING IN NIGERIA ;THE FRUSTRATION IS THAT AFTER 10 YEARS OF CIVILIAN RULE ,THE POLITICAl AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS ARE STILL TOO WEAK TO MANEUVRE SOME GREAT PROSPERITY TO CITIZENS". This study went on , " BOKO HAREM IS VERY LOCAL, LINKING THEM TO A GLOBAL JIHAD MOVEMENT IS VERY IRRESPONSIBLE" . They may have similar tacticts and technics , but they're not global and they dont even have global ideology. To vote in any of these looters is to perpetuate the gloom day for the nation .