The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has proposed a new date for the run-off governorship elections in Imo and Abia where last Saturday’s elections were declared inconclusive.
The commission has suggested Saturday, April 18, as the new date for the run-off elections in the two states.
Vanguard reports that the April 18 proposed date, is however yet to be officially confirmed as sources in the commission disclosed yesterday that senior officials, who should take the final decision, were yet to meet on the development.
INEC had declared the Imo State gubernatorial election inconclusive following the cancellation of results from 216 polling units that cut across 23 local governments with about 144 accredited voters.
In Abia State, the polls were declared inconclusive because the state electoral officer was said to have earlier cancelled the results from Obioma Ngwa, Isiala Ngwa and Osisioma Ngwa local government area, only to later authenticate the results, a development that led to protests by members of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.
Meanwhile, reports from yesterday revealed that INEC has fixed Saturday,April 25 for the run-off election between Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba state.
This is coming hours after normalcy was finally returned to Jalingo, Sunkani in Ardo Kola Local Government Area and Gembu, headquarters of Sardauna Local Government Area.
It would be recalled that INEC declared the gubernatorial election in the state inconclusive based on the fact that cancelled votes in the election were more than the margin between the votes polled by Ishaku who came top in the election and Alhassan who was runner up.
The margin between Ishaku who polled 317,198 votes and Alhassan who polled 262,386 votes was 54,812, while the cancelled votes were 127,125.
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