Less than 12 days to Nigeria’s general elections, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Monday that elections will not be held in about 240 polling units across 28 States of the federation during the February 25 and March 11 general elections.
The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, stated this at a regular consultative meeting on Monday with leaders of the 18 registered political parties.
The Commission also warned that it will not accept a situation where two or more-party agents report to the polling units, causing confusion, adding that any agent found to be engaged in such will be arrested and prosecuted.
The polling units where elections will not hold are from one in Edo, Kwara, Rivers and Zamfara States to 38 in Imo State which has the highest.
Yakubu said the affected polling units have no registered voters, and therefore with the exclusion of the 240 polling units, the election will take place in about 176,606 polling units across the country.
Details shortly….