Following the cancellation of elections results and ordering of rerun elections by tribunals in last year’s general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct 78 re-run polls this year.
The re-run elections which will take place across the country are also based on the verdicts of the Court of Appeal.
Most of the court verdicts were given in December 2015 while a few others were ordered in November 2015, and are expected to hold within 90 days or 60 days as ordered by the Appellate Court.
A breakdown of the elections indicates that the Commission will conduct 10 Senatorial elections, 12 State Constituency elections and 37 State Assembly elections.
Others are 17 Federal Constituency elections and 2 Governorship re-run elections, subject to the verdict of the Supreme Court.
FCT elections March 19
Meanwhile as a prelude to the Council and Chairmanship Elections scheduled for Saturday, March 19, 2015, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will commence Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from next Wednesday.
The CVR will take place in all the 62 Registration Centres/Wards and other approved locations across the FCT and will last five days.
The CVR will begin at the Registration Centre/Wards at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:00p.m on each of the five-day exercise. The last day for Claims And Objections shall be on Monday, January 18, 2016.
