The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) says the supplementary governorship election
scheduled for Saturday in Bauchi state will still hold.
Festus Okoye, chairman of the
information and voter education committee, disclosed this while addressing a
press conference in Abuja on Thursday.
Mohammed Kyari, the returning
officer of the election had declared the poll inconclusive after the number of
cancelled votes exceeded the margin of victory between the two leading
candidates.
While 45,312 votes were announced
to have been cancelled, Bala Mohammed, candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), was leading with a margin of 4,059 votes.
Okoye said the court order that
directed the commission to suspend collation in the last LGA in the state did
not affect the supplementary election.
The commission had fixed Tuesday
to conclude collation of results from Tafawa Balewa LGA but a federal high
court in Abuja issued an order stopping the process pending the determination
of a suit brought by Mohammed Abubakar, governor of the state.
Okoye also said 22,641 registered
voters are expected to participate in the exercise.
He said the re-run will hold in
29 wards across 15 of the 20 LGAs in the state.
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