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October 28, 2019
Independent NationalElectoral Commission INEC’s national commissioner for Edo, Rivers and BayelsaStates, May Agbumuche-Mbu, has lamented the degree of violence often associatedwith elections in Nigeria, saying it is akin only to a war situation.
Agbamuche-Mbu, whonarrated as an example, what happened in Rivers State during the recent 2019general election at a two-day seminar at the Electoral Institute in Abuja,however, sued for caution ahead of the November 16 governorshipelections in Bayelsa and Kogi States.
In similar spirit,another INEC national commissioner, Amina Zakari, explained why inconclusiveelections might be inevitable in certain instances, noting that where it wasestablished that genuine voters had been disenfranchised by any means possible,it behooves the commission to capture the votes of such demographics.
On his part, a fellownational commissioner and chairman of the two-day seminar, which heldpreparatory to the Bayelsa and Kogi elections, Solomon Adedeji Soyebi, alreadyforesaw a heavily monetised exercise in Bayelsa and Kogi, saying there would beintense vote-buying.