INEC set for election in 28 LGAs in Kano state

- The Independent National Electoral Commission in Kano state has assured of its readiness for the conduct of the governorship re-run across 28 affected LGAs in the state

- The INEC resident electoral commissioner, Professor Riskuwa Arab-Shehu, gave the assurance on Thursday, March 21

- Arab-Shehu says the electoral body has received all the sensitive and non-sensitive materials for the re-run,

- The INEC REC says distribution of the election materials will commence on Friday, March 22

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kano state has said it is ready to conduct the governorship re-run election across 28 affected local government areas in the state.

The state INEC resident electoral commissioner, Professor Riskuwa Arab-Shehu, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Kano on Thursday, March 21, ahead of the Saturday, March 23 re-run election.

According to him, across the 28 LGAs, there are 75 registration centres, 207 polling units and 279 voting points with the total number of 128,324 registered voters, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

Legit.ng gathers that Arab-Shehu explained that the governorship election was cancelled across 15 LGAs due to violence and 116 polling units were affected, adding that in these affected areas, the total number of voters is 73,173.

He said: “In 23 LGAs, the election was cancelled due to over voting and violence which disrupted the election process in those areas.

“In these affected areas, we have a total number of 55,151 registered voters in 92 polling units across the affected Local Government Areas.

“Earlier, we have 29 affected Local Government Areas, but we later realised that one of it, Bunkure where card reader was not used in one of the polling units, therefore it was declared as Invalid instead of cancelled."

Arab-Shehu added that the commission after the conduct of the elections on February 23, had reviewed all the affected polling units and came up with the above as the authentic and the exact number of local government areas affected.

According to him, the electoral body has received all the sensitive and non-sensitive materials for the re-run, pointing out that the distribution of the election materials would commence on Friday, March 22.

He assured all the political parties that INEC would do everything possible to ensure a free, fair and credible supplementary election in the state.

Arab-Shehu disclosed that three other RECs from Ogun, Kebbi and Zamfara states were deployed to Kano to support him in the conduct of the re-run election on Saturday, March 23.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng gathers that the National Assembly election petition tribunal sitting in the FCT received three petitions from aggrieved candidates who were not satisfied with the conduct of the February 23 National Assembly election in the territory.

The petitioners, are candidates from National Conscience party (NCP), Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) and the All Progressives Congress.

They are challenging the results of two senatorial and one House of Representatives seats as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

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