The Governorship and State Assembly elections has been postponed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Initially scheduled to hold on March 11, the elections will now hold on March 18, 2023.
A Residential Electoral Commissioner who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity confirmed the decision.
It was learnt that the postponement was due to the inability of the commission to commence the re-configuration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used for the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, to enable their use for the state elections.
Although unconfirmed, sources told stated that the commission management recently held a meeting, where it considered either March 18 or March 25 for the elections, with the former picked as a better date.
“You know that the BVAS re-configuration would take three or four days and since they would all be moved to the headquarters in Abuja, the machines would be re-configured and deployed to the various states and finally to the polling units,” one of the officials said.
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