The Command’s Commissioner, CP Ibrahim Adamu, disclosed this to newsmen at a news briefing he addressed in Kano, Kano State on Monday.
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The LP, in a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Tony Akeni, described the development as regrettable and called for greater clarity and consistency in electoral administration.
The states where the by-election will take place are Anambra, Kano, Oyo, Taraba, Enugu, Adamawa, Edo, Jigawa, Kogi, Kano, Ogun, Zamfara, and Niger States.
The National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is to conduct by-elections in 16 constituencies in 12 states on Saturday.
This is contained in a statement by his media adviser, Paul Mumeh, in a goodwill message to ADC Senatorial, House of Representatives and State Houses of Assembly candidates.
The News Agency of Nigeria correspondents monitored some polling units in Ikorodu, the hometown of candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Saturday.
Speaking to newsmen after observing the process in some polling units in Ogoja and Bekwarra, Festus Okoye, National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education of INEC, said that the process was going as planned.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, Sam Olumekun, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday that the voters were those who possessed Permanent Voter Cards in the senatorial district.
The commission made the disclosure in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in Abuja after INEC’s meeting on Thursday.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, said the meeting was in view of the current situation in the country.
The commission disclosed this in a statement by Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Rivers State, Obo Effanga, said on Thursday that the commission had received the sensitive materials for the conduct of the Port Harcourt Constituency III State Assembly by-election.