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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has provided update on Supplementary election taking place in 18 states on Saturday.

Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, gave the update at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja.

Okoye said that the election scheduled for Saturday, March 23, would take place in 18 states.

Okoye, however, said election would not hold in Bauchi due to litigation initiated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Muhammed Abubakar, on the state governorship election, on the collation of results in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.

He explained that while the commission has complied due to its policy to obey all court orders, in defence of the rule of law, it has also taken urgent steps to vacate the order and dismiss the action.

“It should, however, be noted that the litigation and consequential order only affect the collation of results for the governorship election in Tafawa Balewa LGA.

“Consequently, the supplementary election will proceed as scheduled on Saturday, March 23, in the other 15 LGAs of Bauchi State as well as the Kirfi State Constituency Supplementary election in Kirfi LGA.”