Representatives of six out of the eighteen political parties that participated in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State have postponed their inspection of electoral materials at the Edo State headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Aduwawa, Benin, to October 14.
The decision was reached on Friday, October 11, after a crucial meeting among the party representatives.
The joint inspection of election materials, ordered by the election petitions tribunal, had encountered difficulties in recent days. However, Dr. Anugbum Onuoha, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of INEC in Edo, assured that the issues had been resolved and the inspection would proceed as scheduled.
Despite this, the party representatives decided to reschedule the inspection to Monday, citing INEC’s inability to begin the process on October 11.
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The resolution to postpone the inspection was signed by representatives of six political parties that participated in the closely contested election, which was won by Senator Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The representatives were Obodeje Oghorin, counsel to All Progressives Party (APP); Kenny Isokpan, Edo Chairman of Boot Party (BP); Osahon Obamogie, New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP); Sylvester Ugberase, counsel to Action Peoples Party (APP); Dr. Bishop Akahaime, of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP); and Jarret Tenebe, Edo Chairman of APC.
The representatives also indicated that the rescheduled inspection of electoral materials would commence at 11 a.m. at Edo headquarters of INEC, thereby obeying the order of the tribunal.