The electoral umpire, INEC has announced March 23 for re-run elections in the six states and constituencies where elections were declared inconclusive.
RE-RUN: It was reported how governorship elections were declared inconclusive in six states: Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau, and Sokoto.
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The governorship race in each of those six states is between Nigeria’s two largest parties, APC and PDP.
In a statement on Tuesday evening, INEC spokesperson, Festus Okoye, said the supplementary elections will also be held for inconclusive state assembly elections.
The commission said there were several reason for declaring these elections inconclusive.
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These include discontinuation of use of the smart card readers, the failure to deploy them, over-voting, widespread disruption in polling units and the margin of lead principle.
In the affected states, the commission declared that the margin of lead was less than the cancelled votes.
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