The Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, has introduced that it’ll conduct re-runs and by-elections concurrently in 9 states of the federation affected on Saturday, February 3, 2024.
It stated these vacancies have been declared by the presiding officers of the Nationwide Meeting—the Senate President and Speaker of the Home of Representatives—and audio system of state homes of meeting.
INEC Nationwide Commissioner and Chairman of Data and Voter Training Committee, Sam Olumekun, stated in a press release issued on Friday that the fee has accepted the timetable and schedule of actions for conducting by-elections ensuing from the resignation or demise of members of the Nationwide Meeting and state homes of meeting.
Olumekun famous that the vacancies occurred throughout two senatorial districts, 4 federal constituencies, and three state constituencies, spanning 9 states of the federation.
He added: “Moreover, the Fee is conducting re-run elections stemming from the 2023 common election as directed by numerous election petition attraction tribunals.
“At the moment, 35 constituencies are affected by these court-ordered elections. Whereas three cowl whole constituencies, others contain just a few polling items. Each classes of elections are scheduled to happen concurrently in all affected constituencies on Saturday, February 3, 2024.”
In response to Olumekun, the timetable for the elections, together with detailed delimitation knowledge—registration areas, polling unit names, the variety of registered voters, and PVCs collected—have been uploaded on the fee’s web site and social media platforms as a information to political events and candidates and for public info.
The electoral physique, subsequently, urged political events and candidates to strictly adhere to the desired timelines for the seamless conduct of those elections.