The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced dates for the resumption of collation of results and rerun polls in Rivers State.
The National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Festus Okoye, said this during a press conference at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
Okoye said the resumption of collation and announcements of results for the governorship election in Rivers State would be done between April 2 and 5.
Okoye said: “The commission set up a fact-finding committee that visited Rivers State and submitted its report, which revealed that while election could not hold in a few areas, it was successfully concluded in others with the declaration of winners in 21 state constituencies.
“Collation was ongoing at the time of the suspension of the process.”
Okoye said supplementary elections, where necessary, would now take place on April 13, while issuance of all outstanding Certificates of Return would be concluded on April 19.
He said certificates of return in respect for governors-elect shall be presented by supervising national commissioners of the respective states between March 27 and 29.
He also said the precise date for the presentation in each state would be made known by their Resident Electoral Commissioners after consultation with the supervising national commissioners.
Okoye said date for presentation of Certificates of Return to the state houses of assembly members-elect would be announced in due course.