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March 16, 2019
The Independent National ElectoralCommission,INEC said it will not conduct a rerun election in Bauchi and Riversstates, insisting that the process earlier started will continue.
INEC had announced it will conduct arerun election in Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto States.
INEC has 21 days to complete elections inareas or states where the processes have been declared inconclusive.
But in a statement issued last nightby INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter EducationCommittee, Festus Okoye, the commission said a rerun will not be conducted inBauchi adding that the process earlier started would be completed.
The commission also said that itwill continue with the process it started in Rivers state adding that theprocess which was disrupted by armed soldiers with declaration made in somestate constituencies won’t be reversed.