The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set Saturday, April 15 to hold outstanding governorship and legislative supplementary elections. Governorship supplementary elections will hold in Adamawa and Kebbi States, while legislative supplementary elections into will hold in 5 Senatorial Districts, 31 Federal Constituencies\u00a0 and in 58 State Assembly Constituencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\nwill be recalled that the March 18 Adamawa State governorship election keenly\ncontested by the two leading candidates, incumbent Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of\nthe People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) and Senator Aisha Binani of the All\nProgressives Congress (APC) was declared inconclusive. There was a similar\nsituation in Kebbi State with Nasiru Idris of the APC and Aminu Bande of the PDP\nas the main contenders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\n2023 general elections were a let-down, with the disappointment from the\nPresidential and National Assembly elections contributing to low voter turnout\nin the State level elections. There are still feelings of despondency among\ncitizens, which may affect the turnout of voters for the supplementary polls. However,\nit is important for INEC and the Police to ensure that election logistics,\nelection security and the conduct of the supplementary elections meet citizens\u2019\nexpectations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set Saturday, April 15 to hold outstanding governorship and legislative supplementary elections. Governorship supplementary elections will hold in Adamawa and Kebbi States, while legislative supplementary elections into will hold in 5 Senatorial Districts, 31 Federal Constituencies\u00a0 and in 58 State Assembly Constituencies. It will be recalled that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}