TVC E. Following the nullification of about 80 elections in 16 states of the federation by the Court of Appeal, the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) on Tuesday announced dates for the conduct of rerun elections into federal and state constituencies and senatorial districts across the country, in a statement issued and signed by the Secretary of the Commission, Mrs. Augusta Ogakwu.
Then the affected elections, according to the commission, are to hold between February 13 and March 19, 2016.
The states where the rerun polls will hold include Taraba, Adamawa, Kaduna, Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi, Abia, Imo, Anambra, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Rivers.
According to the statement, “stakeholders in the electoral process and public interests in the subject, INEC at its meeting held on Monday, February 1, 2016 considered and approved dates for the conduct of elections as ordered by the Court of Appeal.”
The commission however, said there would be no fresh primaries in constituencies where the court disqualified a candidate based on improper conduct of the party primary.
The commission added that while elections in 69 constituencies of the affected states would be with the same political parties and their respective candidates who participated in the annulled elections, some political parties in 11 constituencies, cut across seven states, would not be participating in the rerun polls.
