There are speculations that the governorship and State assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 have been postponed to March 18 by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
It was learnt that the postponement was due to the inability of the commission to commence the re-configuration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used for the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, to enable their use for the state elections.
Sources inside Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said the election could not hold again as scheduled following a meeting of its executives on Wednesday evening.
INEC cited a logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration and transportation.
“The elections were postponed to allow one more week for preparations,” an official familiar with the meeting told Peoples Gazette by telephone on Wednesday night.
“We should be able to get everything in order before March 18.”
The Court of Appeal had on Wednesday granted approval to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).
