The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections till March 18, 2023.
According to reports, the exercise which was previously scheduled to hold on March 11 was shifted due to a logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration, and transportation.
The decision was made on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, following a meeting of the commission’s executives.
“We should be able to get everything in order before March 18,” a source familiar with the development said.
The meeting was still underway at INEC headquarters in Abuja as of the time of filing this report.
Recall that 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.
