#EdoDecides2020: Violence, vote-buying, other irregularities mar governorship elections — YIAGA

YIAGA, in its Mid-Day Situational Statement for Edo Governorship Elections, said thirteen out of 18 LGAs were classified as hotspots due to the spate of violence.

As predicted by Yiaga Africa in the pre-election, there were more critical incident reports from Oredo, Orhionwon, Igueben, Egor, Ikpoba-Okha and Esan North-East at the commencement of today’s poll. Some of the verified incident reports include ballot box snatching, sporadic shootings and interference and disruption of the election process, intimidation and harassment of observers/journalists and vote-buying.

Yiaga Africa notes that although this issue has been resolved, we are concerned with the deployment of police officers to closely monitor the Yiaga Africa’s press conference. Yiaga Africa would like to thank sister election observer groups and the international community for their solidarity and support.Yiaga Africa’s WTV observation for the Edo governorship election is fully operational. These are preliminary findings as at 2:00 pm election day.

· As of 7:30 am, Yiaga Africa WTV observers reported that INEC officials had arrived at 38% of polling units.

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