INEC Postpones Governorship Elections, Mulls March 18 As New Date

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has concluded arrangement to postpone the governorship and state house of assembly elections scheduled for Saturday, March 11.

The polls have now been rescheduled by at least one week with March 18, 2023 being the most likely date, credible sources in the commission told Daily Trust.

March 25 was also being considered by some other officials though it was learnt that March 18 was the choice of the majority of the officials.

It was learnt that the postponement was due to the inability of the commission to commence the re-configuration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used for the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, to enable their use for the state elections.

“You know that the BVAS re-configuration would take three or four days and since they would all be moved to the headquarters in Abuja, the machines would be re-configured and deployed to the various states and finally to the polling units,” one of the officials said.

GWG.ng reports that the commission did not get the leave of the courts to reconfigure the BVAS machines until Wednesday when the Court of Appeal granted the permission but on the condition that the commission backs up the data in the machines. The late permission made it inevitable for INEC to postpone the governorship elections earlier fixed for March 11.

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