Ahead of the Edo state governorship elections scheduled for 14th July 2012, a civil society organization, Project Swift Count says it would deploy 834 observers to monitor the election.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, the first co-chair of the organization, Mister Dafe Akpedeye said that eight hundred of its observers will be deployed to selected polling units across the eighteen local government areas of the state while thirty four others will rove round all the polling stations in the state.
While asking eligible voters in Edo state to come out en masse to vote for candidates of their choice, the group also asked contestants in the election to conduct themselves in a peaceful manner.
