574 candidates to participate in Saturday, March 9 poll in Abia

- Five hundred and seventy four candidates from 43 political parties will be participating in the Saturday, March 9 governorship and House of Assembly elections in Abia state

- The disclosure was made by the Independent National Electoral Commission

- The resident electoral commissioner in the state, Joseph Iloh, says 39 of the candidates are for governorship election while the rest 535 are for the state House of Assembly poll

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said 574 candidates from 43 political parties would feature in the Saturday, March 9 governorship and House of Assembly elections in Abia state.

Joseph Iloh, INEC resident electoral commissioner in the state, said this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the commission’s stakeholders meeting in Umahia on Wednesday, March 6.

Legit.ng gathers that Iloh said 39 of the candidates are for governorship election while the rest 535 are for the state House of Assembly poll.

According to him, 39 senatorial and 93 House of Representatives candidates contested in the February 16 presidential/National Assembly elections in the state.

He said Saturday’s elections would be conducted concurrently, adding that the commission is fully prepared for a very good election on Saturday.

Iloh said: “We have patched all the sensitive and non-sensitive materials.

“Tomorrow (Thursday), they are going to the Local Government Area (LGA) offices and Saturday, they will be at the right centres."

He said the results would be collated at collation points for all the registration areas, after which they would be moved to the LGAs collation centres.

Iloh said: “We do this because when we collate results at the collation centres the population of persons who are interested will lessen.

“Few persons will now be accommodated at the LGA offices of INEC, from there, they move over to Umuahia, the state capital, where we collate the results and make pronouncement."

Representatives of political parties, Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC) and security agencies at the meeting made useful submissions towards credible and peaceful elections on Saturday.

The REC, however, advised politicians to sheathe their sword and plan for a peaceful election.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, defeated President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Saturday, February 23 election held in Abia state.

The total valid votes were 323,291 and Atiku polled 219,698, while President Buhari secured 85,058.

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