Nigeria: Sacked Governors - INEC Undecided On Supreme Court Ruling

27 January 2012

Friday's Supreme Court dismissal of the tenure elongation case filed by five governors of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), has thrown the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) into fresh rounds of operational bottlenecks as the ruling may necessitate last minute changes to already scheduled elections time tables in affected states.

In one, the governorship elections in Bayelsa State has already been scheduled for next month, February 11, 2012.

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