The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has received assurances from the security agencies that there would not be a repeat of violence in the Saturday's supplementary elections in Sokoto State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it has received assurances from the security agencies that there would not be a repeat of violence in the Saturday’s supplementary elections in Sokoto State.
That declaration prompted supplementary elections in the areas where voting was cancelled or did not hold across the affected states. The voting had been cancelled in the affected polling units in the first poll of March due to violence, the spokesperson for INEC in Sokoto State, Mohammed Musa, told PREMIUM TIMES on Friday.
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