Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided to postpone Saturday’s Governorship and State Assembly elections to March 18, 2023.
Gatekeepers News reports that a top INEC official who craved anonymity on Wednesday evening confirmed that the election which was supposed to hold this Saturday, March 11, has been shifted.
The postponement is due to INEC’s inability to promptly commence reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines utilized during the February 25 presidential election to enable their use in the state elections.
The Commission was earlier restrained from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS machines until the due inspection was conducted and Certified True Copies (CTC) issued to candidates who are challenging the outcome of the presidential election.
One of INEC officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, “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.”
