Date for Ekiti Assembly supplementary election announced by INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday said that it had fixed the only constituency poll for the Ekiti State House of Assembly that was not concluded on March 9 to March 23.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the election in Ekiti East Constituency 1 had been declared inconclusive by the INEC, following reported cases of violence and other factors.
INEC’s Administrative Secretary in the state, Muslim Omoleke, who also doubles as the Commission’s Acting Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state announced the new date in Ado Ekiti.

He asked political parties that would be participating in the supplementary election to get ready.
He assured the parties that the commission would not deviate from the tradition of neutrality and fairness in the forthcoming supplementary election.