The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC says that the rescheduled rerun election for the Enugu South 1 State Constituency was postponed for security reason.
The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Dr Chukwuemeka Chukwu said in an interview in Enugu the rerun election, which was fixed after stakeholders’ engagements to hold on June 8, would hold on a later date to be communicated by the commission.
Chukwu said the scheduled rerun election was postponed and duly communicated to all stakeholders with a clear reason for the postponement and expressed surprise that all sorts of unfounded falsehood and rumours were being peddled against the commission.
The Labour Party candidate for the State House of Assembly, Bright Ngene was declared winner of the March 18, 2023 election and was sworn in but the election was nullified by the tribunal for being inconclusive.
This is the third attempt by the INEC to hold the election.
As early as 7am on Saturday, voters had converged in the affected polling units but no official of INEC was seen at the venue with the Labour Party candidate for the election Ngene, who was at the polling centre expressing dismay over the development.
He told journalists that there was no information available to him and his party that the election would not hold.
On his part, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mr Sam Ngene, however, said the postponement was duly communicated to his party.