INEC Postpones 2023 Governorship Election, See New Date

INEC has postponed the 2023 Governorship Election.

Newsone reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria’s electoral umpire, has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections till March 18.

This online news platform understands that the 2023 Governorship Election and the State Assembly election were previously scheduled to hold on March 11, but INEC, citing a logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration and transportation, said the election could not hold again as scheduled following a meeting of its executives on Wednesday evening.

“The elections were postponed to allow one more week for preparations,” an official familiar with the meeting told Peoples Gazette by telephone on Wednesday night. “We should be able to get everything in order before March 18.”

The meeting was still underway at INEC headquarters in Abuja as of the time of filing this report.

Meanwhile, Newsone Nigeria reports that this is coming on the day the commission convinced the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal to vary its order granting Peter Obi of the Labour Party and PDP’s Atiku Abubakar permission to inspect the election materials on the premise that it had to reconfigure the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) for the conduction of the polls this Saturday.