INEC Postpones Anambra Central Re-run Indefinitely

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday postponed indefinitely the Anambra Central senatorial re-run election scheduled for Saturday, March 5, 2016. Announcing the postponement at stakeholders’ meeting at the Professor Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre,

Awka, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Dr. Lawrence Azubuike said this followed a court order obtained by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that it should be included in the exercise. INEC boss, Mahmood YakubuINEC boss, Mahmood Yakubu Though, the REC did not elaborate,
Vanguard gathered that a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja on Monday ordered INEC to include the PDP in the rerun election. INEC bars PDP INEC had barred the PDP from participating in the rerun poll following a Court of Appeal judgment of 7th December, 2015 nullifying the election of the party’s candidate, Mrs. Uche Ekwunife in the national assembly election held on March 28, 2015.