INEC sets to hold supplementary election in Adamawa, Kano, Bauchi, Benue others

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said it would conduct supplementary elections on March 23 in states where the exercise was put on hold due to violence or other reasons.
        An electoral official counting the votes The decision was a fall out of the commission’s meeting Tuesday in Abuja. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye in a late Tuesday statement said the Commission met and reviewed the conduct of the 29 Governorship and 991 State constituency elections held on 9th March 2019. In all, the Commission had declared winners in the Governorship elections in 22 states. ‘However, the Returning Officers in Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto States declared the Governorship elections inconclusive. Consequently, the Commission will conduct supplementary elections on Saturday 23rd March 2019 to conclude the process. Supplementary elections will also hold in polling units in all States where State Assembly elections were declared inconclusive and winners could not be declared.

Details of the constituencies including number of polling units and registered voters, will be published on our website tomorrow Wednesday 13th March 2019″, he declared. Okoye said the elections were declared inconclusive for a combination of reasons, mainly the discontinuation of use of the Smart Card Readers midway into the elections or the failure to deploy them, over-voting and widespread disruption in many polling units.