The supplementary election in Kogi West Senatorial District between Dino Melaye and Smart Adeyemi will be held on November 30.
Melaye is of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, while Adeyemi is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The rerun which was conducted on Saturday was declared inconclusive as the number of cancelled votes, 43,127, was said to be higher than the difference between the votes of Melaye and Adeyemi.
With Adeyemi having 80,118 votes and Melaye, 59,548, the difference is 20,570 votes.
Announcing the date for the supplementary election in Abuja on Thursday, the chairman of INEC’s information and voter education committee, Festus Okoye, said the decision was reached at the meeting held by INEC.
His words: “The independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, met today Thursday 21, November 2019 and fixed 30th November 2019 for the conduct of the Supplementary and re-run elections for Kogi West Senatorial District and Ajaokuta Federal Constituency respectively.
“At the conclusion of the court-ordered Kogi West Senatorial re-run election on 16th November 2019, supplementary polls were indicated by the Collation/Returning Officer for the Senatorial District, affecting 20 Registration Areas. 53 Polling Units and 46,767 Registered Voters spread across 7 Local Government Areas of the Senatorial District.
“In addition, the court ordered the conduct of Supplementary rerun poll in Ajaokuta Federal Constituency affecting 22 Polling Units. Collation procedures shall be in line with extant Guidelines for Collation at the Supplementary polls.
“The list of affected Registration Areas and Polling Units will be uploaded on our website and communicated to the stakeholders in the respective Registration Areas and Polling Units.”
