2019: INEC fixes Feb 16 for Presidential, NASS elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed Saturday, February 16, 2019, for Presidential and National Assembly elections.

INEC National Commissioner in charge of the South-West, Prince Solomon Soyebi, announced this in Abuja during a media interface where he also revealed that 23 officials of the commission indicted in the course of the recent rerun elections in Rivers State had been placed on half salary.

Equally, governorship/state Assembly/Federal Capital Territory Area Council elections will hold on Saturday, March 2, 2019. He said: “In Nigeria, the constitution provides for elections to hold not earlier than 150 days and not later than 30 days to the end of the incumbent’s tenure. “In order to ensure certainty in our dates for elections, and to allow for proper planning by the commission, political parties, security agencies, candidates and all stakeholders, the commission has decided to fix the date for the national elections for the third Saturday in February of the election year, followed by state elections two weeks later.