Edo State Election 2020 Update: Why Voters With Some Face Masks Should Not Come To Polling Units - INEC Official

As the Edo State Election 2020 holds today, Saturday, 19th of September, and AllNews brings you real-time updates from the South-Southern state, the Director, Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nick Dazang says persons wearing face masks that bear the logos of political parties should not bother coming to polling units.

The INEC official stressed that voters must come to polling units with their face masks but discouraged anything that tends to promote a political party around the voting arena.

As well, Dazang stated that due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which has killed over 1, 000 persons in Nigeria since February when the first case was discovered, card-readers would be disinfected after each use.

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He further stated that provisions had been made for voters to wash their hands before and after casting their ballot.

Dazang was speaking on ‘Good Morning Nigeria’ programme on NTA on Friday, as monitored by this reporter.

Edo election

After weeks of acrimonious campaigns, the people of Edo State will this morning troop out, amid tension, to elect a governor that will manage the state in the next four years.

Fourteen political parties are fielding candidates for the election, but the contest will be a straight fight between incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).