INEC has announced that outstanding National Assembly elections will take place in some areas during the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections scheduled to take place on March 9.
The electoral body was forced to scrap voting in some areas of Rivers, Lagos and Anambra State because of election violence on Saturday, February 23, 2019.
But in a recent statement by Festus Okoye, INEC chairman of information and voter education committee, he said fresh elections will happen to get it over with.
The statement read, “Consequently, the meeting decided that supplementary elections will be conducted in all areas where elections did not take place and/or where returns could not be made on Saturday, 9th March 2019 alongside the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections.”
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