Tag: Postponement

  • Protests: INEC postpones bye-elections indefinitely

    Protests: INEC postpones bye-elections indefinitely

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed indefinitely, the outstanding 15 bye-elections earlier scheduled to hold on Oct 31. The commission made the disclosure in a statement issued by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, in Abuja after INEC’s meeting held on Thursday. He cited the security…

  • PDP remains opposed to any postponement of Edo, Ondo polls

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will oppose any postponement of Edo and Ondo State governorship elections. The PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus at a news conference in Abuja, said the September 19 scheduled for Edo and October 10 for Ondo governorship elections should be sacrosanct. Secondus called for appropriate sanction of the…