{"id":174403,"date":"2025-08-15T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:13:33","slug":"inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections","title":{"rendered":"INEC distributes sensitive materials for Edo by-elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has commenced the distribution of sensitive materials to local government areas in Edo State ahead of Saturday\u2019s scheduled by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>The distribution exercise took place at the Benin branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, where political party representatives and members of civil society organisations were on hand to witness proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Edo State, Prof. Anugbum Onuoha, told journalists that the commission deemed it necessary to involve all political parties fielding candidates in the polls to ensure transparency.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the stakeholders present expressed satisfaction with the handling of the materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exercise so far has been seamless, and we are fully prepared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sensitive materials will be dispatched from here to the seven local government areas where the elections will take place,\u201d Onuoha stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has commenced the distribution of sensitive materials to local government areas in Edo State ahead of Saturday\u2019s scheduled by-elections. The distribution exercise took place at the Benin branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, where political party representatives and members of civil society organisations were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[694,251,254],"class_list":["post-174403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-edo-state","tag-inec","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INEC distributes sensitive materials for Edo by-elections - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has commenced the distribution of sensitive materials to local gove ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC distributes sensitive materials for Edo by-elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has commenced the distribution of sensitive materials to local gove ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-15T07:53:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-15T09:13:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755236775.960074.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"INEC distributes sensitive materials for Edo by-elections\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-15T07:53:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-15T09:13:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections\"},\"wordCount\":156,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755236775.960074.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Edo state\",\"INEC\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-distributes-sensitive-materials-for-edo-by-elections\",\"name\":\"INEC distributes sensitive materials for Edo by-elections - 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