Finally, INEC postpones Edo governorship poll

The Independent National Electoral Commission has finally postponed the September 10 governorship election in Edo State to a later date.
The Point learnt that INEC was compelled to shift the election earlier scheduled for Saturday by two separate security reports received by the commission from the Department of State Services and the police on the conduct of the exercise.
It was gathered that the unfavourbale security reports from the DSS and the police forced the commission to postponed the election, which it had earlier in the day insisted would hold as scheduled.
INEC, in the next few minutes will address the press at its Benin, Edo State headquarters on its new stand on the Edo poll.
Details later…