Edo State governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, on Saturday joined others to cast his vote at the ongoing governorship election in the state.
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Obaseki arrived his Oredo Ward 4 Polling Unit at Emokpae Model Primary School, Benin City at about 10:25am.
He, however, said he was disappointed at the level of preparation of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the election.
“I expected that INEC would have prepare better for this election,” he said.
“I waited for one and half hours on the queue before exercising my franchise, it’s a bit disappointing,” the governor added.
He said considering that the election was just for the state, INEC should have prepared better.
“I expected a better planning for this election. Card readers were very slow and that’s the situation everywhere.”
Meanwhile, Sylvester Okoduwa, an official of the Transition Monitoring Group, an election NGO, commended the peaceful commencement of the electoral process in the Edo State capital.
He said the election had started on a peaceful note and the voters wore their face masks, observed the social distancing rule, and also washed their hands in compliance to the COVID-19 protocols.
Edo is voting to elect a governor to run its state affairs for the next four years.
The state has a total of 2, 210,534 registered voters in 18 local government areas with 192 wards.
