Onaghise expressing his displeasure on the exercise in a Press Briefing said, the LG elections was a sham.
According to him, the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) has earlier assured stakeholders that they are going to use the Bi-modal Voters Verification Machine System ( BIVAS) for the elections,but suddenly change to manual accreditation.
He also said,the Commission earlier said movement will be restricted,but that the governor two days to the elections changed it and said movement is not restricted, adding that that got everyone agitated.
“We had series of stakeholders’ meetings, at a point,they said BIVAs and card readers will be used but towards the election, they jettisoned that, they said there would be restriction of movements but two days to the election the governor announced that there will not be restriction of movement so at that point, we started suspecting, but EDSIEC assured that everything will be fine.
“Today, it took more than six hours for materials to arrive, EDSIEC staff were not seen. I am the LP candidate for Oredo but as I speak to you, I can’t vote because there are no materials people have been waiting since 7 o clock. I discredit the process and I call for the cancellation of the exercise, it is so painful that I have not been able to vote for myself.” he said.
