The incumbent governor of Edo, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has on Sunday, September 22, stated that he visited the state collation centre to get first-hand information about the process supervised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He made the statement during a briefing by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign organisation for the Edo state governorship election 2024.

There was tension at the Edo headquarters of INEC in the early hours of Sunday, September 22.

Some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had accused Obaseki of 'laying siege on the office of the resident electoral commission for hours ostensibly out of desperation'.

Reacting to this, Obaseki said he visited the INEC office because the agency "had refused to put any information in the public domain."

Obaseki said: “As of 3:00 a.m., there was no information from INEC as to what was going to what was going on or what was going to happen next.

"It was subsequently after my insistence and meeting with Mr Frank Mba that INEC now released a statement at about 5:00a.m this morning informing the public that the collation process would start at 10 a.m. this morning.

“So, my going there was essentially to obtain information from INEC because they had refused to put any information in the public domain as to what was going to happen with the collation process.”