BREAKING: INEC Postpones Governorship, State Assembly Elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission said it has postponed exercise of the coming governorship and state assembly elections till 18th of March.

The much awaited exercise which was previously scheduled to hold on March 11, has been rescheduled.

INEC had sighted a logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration and transportation, said the election could not hold again as scheduled following a meeting of its executives held today, Wednesday evening.

“The elections were postponed to allow one more week for preparations,” an official familiar with the meeting had to confirmed to our source by telephone on Wednesday night. “We should be able to get everything in order before March 18.”

The said meeting was still underway at INEC’s headquarters in Abuja as of the time of filing this report.

Meanwhile, the commission had convinced the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal to vary its order granting Peter Obi of the Labour Party and PDP’s Atiku Abubakar permission to inspect the election materials on the premise that it had to reconfigure the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) for the conduction of the polls this Saturday