Fresh Presidential and National Assembly elections will be conducted on Monday in seven Local Government Areas of Abia State, Southeast Nigeria.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said elections would start in various polling units in the affected areas at 8:00 am, local time.
INEC Administration Secretary in charge of Abia State, Mr Clement Oha made this known while addressing newsmen in Umuahia on Sunday.
Mr Oha listed the affected LGAs as Obingwa, Osisioma, Aba North, Aba South, Umuahia North, Ohafia, and Arochukwu.
He said, “the commission has notified the affected polling units in the Seven Local Government Areas.”
According to Mr Oha, violence erupted in the affected areas on Saturday which led to the cancellation of the election and the fresh polls.
He said; “We had various degrees of discrepancies concerning the procedures that were violent to some extent.
“The Commission in their wisdom felt that the credibility of the election should not be compromised and that there should be no winner by default. So, election must take place in the affected polling units on Monday.”
He added that the Commission was still processing the polling units of the affected Local Government Areas.
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