Lucky Obukohwo ReportingÂ
Former governor of Edo State and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Edo North senatorial district, Adams Oshiomhole, expressed confidence in winning the Edo North Senatorial election.
Oshiomhole who stated this yesterday after casting his vote in his country home, Iyamho lamented the late arrival of electoral materials in the Etsako Federal Constituency.
Oshiomhole , a for former National Chairman of the APC, said he had reported the matter to the Electoral Officer (EO) in charge of the locality., alleging that the development was targeted at the Etsako federal constituency.
“In Okpella community where the House of Representatives candidate of the party hail from, electoral materials arrived at about 11 am.
He added that when the materials finally arrived there was no ballot paper and result sheets while also in ward 9 there was no result sheet, ink and stamp.
He maintained that the electorate vowed not to vote if all the material are not made available.
Oshiomhole listed ward 7, 8 among others as some of the areas where electoral materials were not available, noting that the development was more pronounced in Etsako East local government area.
“INEC is clearly not ready in many polling units in Etsako area because they know that in Edo North, there is no way they will do free and fair election, I will have overwhelming votes”.
“I believe that is why they targeted this local government for this crisis.
“I have had those information before but you say sometimes, let us wait and see as we cannot prove it, now we have seen it.
” Go to Okpella ward 7 and other places there. I have called the Electoral Officer and he said they are going to move materials here.
“I think they programmed it in a way that the votes will be minimal. But the good news is that, the people are enlightened.
“INEC rule is that where election could not take place because of their own fault, it has to be repeated either the following day or another time assigned for it. So, they cannot get away with it, we are ready for a long distance run”, Oshiomhole said.