INEC postpones governorship election to reconfigure BVAS
The Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections scheduled for Saturday, March 11, 2023 has been postponed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
This was disclosed by officials of INEC, according to Daily Trust.
The elections will hold on Saturday, March 18, 2023.
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The postponement became necessary for the commission to enable it re-configure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) which was granted by the Appeal Court in Abuja on Wednesday.
“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.
More details to follow…..
