INEC Announces New Dates for Presidential, Governorship Elections
Daily Rendezvous The Independent Nationnal Electoral Commission (INEC) says Nigeria's presidential election will hold on February 25, 2023. The INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, made this known Saturday, at a media briefing in Abuja. Yakubu further said that the national assembly elections will hold on the same day, while governorship and state house of assembly polls will take place on March 11, 2023. This announcement comes hours after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the National Electoral Act Bill into law. Yakubu said the 2023 polls were initially scheduled to commence on February 18, 2023 with the presidential and national assembly elections, followed by the governorship and state house of assembly elections on March 4. He said the commission could, however, not release the detailed timetable and schedule of activities because of the pending enactment of the electoral act 2022. “The electoral act provides strict timelines for the implementation of electoral ac...