Edo Poll: INEC Withdraws Card Readers, Meets Stakeholders, Sept 22

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Edo State says it has commenced the withdrawal of its card readers and non-sensitive materials, following the postponement of the governorship election to September 28.
INEC’s Assistant Director, Voters Education and Publicity in the state, Mrs Priscilla Sule, made the disclosure, Monday, while addressing newsmen in Benin City, the state capital.
Sule said the withdrawal of the card readers from the 18 local government areas of the state was to enable the commission reconfigure the machines ahead of the September 28 election.
She said INEC would also retrain presiding officers and assistant presiding officers for the election.
The voter education and publicity director, further said a stakeholders’ meeting had been scheduled for September 22, to enable the commission intimate critical stakeholders on its level of readiness ahead of the governorship election on September 28.
It would be recalled that INEC, had on September 8, 2016, announced the postponement of the governorship election in Edo, originally fixed for September 10, citing security reasons.