BEVERLY HILLS, March 26, (THEWILL) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that it would conduct the supplementary governorship election in Adamawa State on Thursday, March 28.
The state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Kassim Gaidam, announced this on Tuesday afternoon during a chat with reporters at the INEC state office in Yola.
He revealed that the decision was taken after due consultation with the INEC headquarters in Abuja adding that efforts were being made with the various security agencies to ensure the violence, which characterised supplementary election in some other states does not repeat itself in Adamawa.
He added that to facilitate a hitch-free process, only voters with PVCs will be allowed into voting centres in the places where the supplementary election will hold.
THEWILL recalls that the supplementary governorship election in the state had been scheduled for 44 polling units in 14 local government areas but it could not hold on March 23, which it was originally scheduled following a court injunction against it.
The decision by INEC to hold the rerun on Thursday followed the vacation of the order against the election by the Adamawa State High Court at a sitting in Yola earlier in the day.
