The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that it has now fixed March 23 for supplementary polls in the six states where governorship elections were said to be inconclusive after the march 9 elections.
This information was released by Mr Okoye Festus, the National Officer and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, after a meeting of the senior management team of the electoral body. The meeting was held to review the conduct of the 29 governorship and 991 state Houses of Assembly elections on March 9.
The Returning Officers in Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto states declared the governorship elections inconclusive. The commission has therefore agreed to conduct supplementary elections on Saturday, March 23, 2019 to conclude the process. The election in the above listed states were said to be inconclusive due to the discontinuation of the use of smart card readers midway into the polls, failure to deploy them, over-voting and violence.
Okoye added that INEC would set up a panel to address the issue surrounding the disruption of the collation at the Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State.