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that might come from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, all is set for the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly polls.
Tomorrow Saturday, March 9, 2019, the electorates in the 36 states of the Federation will elect 29 governors and fill the 36 States of Assembly and the Federal Capital Territory Area Councils. The election to choose the powerful state governors of Nigeria is, perhaps, more keenly-contested than the national or presidential election because “all politics is local”.
The Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led INEC is still smarting from the scathing criticisms that went with the Presidential and National Assembly elections which the candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is challenging at the Election Petition Tribunal over alleged large scale irregularities and security failures.
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