The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that 28 rerun elections have been fixed for January 25, 2020.
The electoral body said the 28 reruns were a fallout of court-ordered rerun elections that have yet to be held across the nation.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Thursday.
The statement noted that the election petition tribunals constituted to try cases arising from the 2019 general elections had received a total of 807 post-election petitions, out of which 582 were dismissed and 183 withdrawn by petitioners.
Out of the remaining 42 cases, 30 were decided for rerun, while 12 were ordered to be issued certificates of return.
“Of the 30 rerun cases, two —Kogi West Senatorial District supplementary rerun election and Ajaokuta Federal Constituency rerun election — were conducted on November 30.
“There are, so far, 30 such court-ordered rerun and supplementary rerun elections.
“Two of these, namely, the rerun election for the Ajaokuta Federal Constituency and the supplementary rerun election for the Kogi West Senatorial District were conducted on 30th November 2019.
“Consequently, there are 28 court-ordered elections still outstanding, which are distributed across 12 states of the federation.
“The breakdown comprises one senatorial district out of 109; 12 federal constituencies out of 360; and 15 state Assembly constituencies out of 991.
“In many of the cases, elections are to be rerun in only a few polling units.
“The Commission will make available further details of the affected areas, including the polling units, on its website in due course.
“After consideration of several issues surrounding the rerun elections, including the time needed for preparations, establishing the full details of the affected areas from court judgments as well as the intervention of the Yuletide, the Commission has decided to hold all the 28 outstanding court-ordered rerun elections on Saturday, 25th January, 2020.
“Further details of various activities and timelines will be published later,” the statement added.
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