While assuring the public that it would not postpone the Edo State governorship election scheduled for next Saturday as it had in 2016, the commission said a similar fire incident would not occur in Edo State. INEC stated that the Ondo State governorship poll would still hold as planned, despite the destruction of smart card readers. We require 4,100 SCRs for the Ondo election and an additional 100 for training, so that the ad hoc staff are properly trained using the SCRs. The Ondo election will not be affected by what happened to the SCRs. He said, “Yes, in September 2016, the Edo governorship election, for reasons known to Nigerians, was postponed for two weeks, but it had nothing to do with the preparation of the commission.

Source: Punch September 12, 2020 00:29 UTC