The chairman of the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission, Jonathan Aifuobhokan, commended the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission on Saturday.

The Edo electoral commission boss and his team were in Lagos to observe the election.

Mr Aifuobhokhan said, “LASIEC actually prepared well and is ready for this election. With the programmes we have seen and the activities we have seen, everything is well-planned.

“We are already learning some things  and when it comes to the Edo local government election, we are going to replicate what is being done here. The level of  preparation is fine, things are going well. We will surely do what we have seen here in our state.

“We will even invite LASIEC  to tell us how they were able to get to this level for us to be able to improve on what they have done.”

According to Mr Aifuobhokhan, the election has been peaceful so far.

“From where we came out, we saw that everything was peaceful. We saw some kind of enthusiasm in terms of  voting. We believe everything will be peaceful till the end and there will not be any crisis. We don’t envisage any problem.”

LASIEC is conducting elections in the 20 local governments and 37 LCDAs in the state. The election is currently underway across the state’s 57 council areas and 376 electoral wards. 

(NAN)