INEC may postpone Saturday’s governorship, state assembly elections

INEC may postpone Saturday’s governorship, state assembly elections

The election was scheduled to hold on Saturday, 11th March, two weeks after the presidential election.

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There are strong indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will postpone the Governorship and States Houses of Assembly elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, 11 March.

Multiple sources hinted on Wednesday night that the elections may be shifted by one week to 18 March.

The election is the second round of the 2023 General election that started with the presidential and national assembly election conducted on 25 February.

The postponement, which is yet to be confirmed, may not be unconnected to the commission’s inability to reconfigure the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines ahead of Saturday’s election due to a court order.

The commission was still meeting at its headquarters in Abuja at the time of this report.

INEC’s National Commissioner for Voter Education, Festus Okoye, did not respond to calls placed to his line and a text message request for clarification.