The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections to March 18.
The atmosphere has been full of anticipation with many voters eager to exercise their franchise.
The election was previously scheduled for March 11, however, citing logistics crisis around the BVAS configuration and transportation, the election umpire said that voting would 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 is quoted as saying 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.
The commission had sought and obtained an order by 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 polls this Saturday.