By
Emmanuel Aziken
The Edo State governorship election
is to go ahead, sources in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC
despite security concerns raised by the Police and the Department of State
Services, DSS. Ize-Iyamu and Obasek Ize-Iyamu and Obasek Confidential sources
told Vanguard on Thursday morning that the commission took the decision go
ahead the Edo election after consultation with the security agencies and
meetings among senior officials of INEC.
A statement to that effect Vanguard
learnt is being prepared and is to be issued within hours. Controversy stoked
preparations for the Edo elections on Wednesday when the police and DSS issued
a joint statement advising INEC to postpone the election on the claim that they
had intelligence reports of a planned attack by insurgents or terrorists in
some states between September 12 and 13.
The claim was immediately rebuffed
by the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which said that the
planned attack while not specific to Edo State, was timed after the September
10, election. The postponement was, however, welcomed with reservations by
Governor Adams Oshiomhole, the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC in
the state who said it was only a postponement of the final burial of the
opposition, PDP.
-Vanguard
-Vanguard
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