The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has
fixed November 2 for the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States.
Chairman of INEC’s information and voters
education committee, Festus Okoye, had announced this on Tuesday evening.
It could be recalled that the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, had earlier revealed that the timetable for governorship elections in both Kogi and Bayelsa States will be out this week.
Yakubu made this known last Monday while defending the 2019 budget estimate of the Commission before the joint national assembly committee on INEC stating that before the week runs out, the timetable and schedule of activities for the gubernatorial poll in the two states will be made public.
“This year we are going to conduct two end of tenure elections into the offices of the governor in Kogi and Bayelsa states, meaning that towards the end of the year we are going to conduct governorship elections at different times in the two states.
“Let me seize this opportunity here to say that before the end of this week INEC will issue a Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states,” he said.
Commenting on the 2019 INEC budget estimate, Yakubu observed that the Commission was receiving same envelop amount of N45.5billion as in 2017 and 2018.
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