INEC Fixes Date For Supplementary Elections In Adamawa, Kebbi, Others

• National assembly elections held on February 25, while governorship and house of assembly polls held on March 18 across Nigeria.

• However, some elections were declared inconclusive for various reasons.

• The electoral commission has announced a date for affected elections.

Eko Hot Blog reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed April 15 for the conduct of supplementary governorship elections in Kebbi and Adamawa states.

The commission made the disclosure in a short statement via Twitter on Monday.

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It said supplementary polls for national and state assembly seats in other states will also take place on April 15.

“Arising from its meeting held today, the Independent National Electoral Commission has decided that all outstanding Governorship, National and State Assembly supplementary elections will take place on Saturday 15th April 2023,” the statement reads.

INEC had declared the governorship elections of March 18 in Kebbi and Adamawa states as inconclusive last week.

Polls in states such as Oyo, Sokoto, amongst others, were also declared inconclusive.

In Adamawa, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the PDP scored the highest votes, but INEC said the cancelled votes were more than the margin of victory between Fintiri and the runner-up, Aisha Dahiru of the APC.

At the end of the official tally of results, Fintiri defeated Dahiru, popularly called Binani, with a margin of over 30,000 votes.

The incumbent governor scored 421,524 votes, while Dahiru won 390,275 votes.

Fintiri also won the election in 13 of Adamawa’s 21 local government areas while Binani won in the remaining eight.

In Kebbi, Nasir Idris of the APC and Aminu Bande of the PDP are the leading candidates.

INEC’s Returning Officer, Professor Yusuf Sa’idu, declared the race inconclusive because there were breaches of electoral laws that led to cancellations of results in polling units within 20 of the 21 LGAs in the state.

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Before declaring the election inconclusive, APC was leading the polls with 388,258 votes, as against 342,980 votes polled by the PDP. The margin between both parties is 45,278.

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