Nigeria: Edo 2020 - Why Many Eligible Voters Will Be Disenfranchised - INEC

6 August 2020

Benin City — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Thursday, said many eligible voters in Edo state would not be able to vote in the September 19th election because of the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic that has made impossible for the Commission to carry out continuous voters registration and collection of permanent voters cards (PVC).

The Commission's head of Voters' Education, Mr. Timidi Wariowei made this disclosure in Benin City yesterday at a Civil Society Organisation Roundtable on the 2020 Governorship Election in Edo.

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