Nigeria: How Yobe Plans Polls Amid PDP Boycott and INEC Alarm

26 December 2013

Maiduguri — Barring any last minute change, the Yobe State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) will conduct the chairmanship and councillorship elections in all the 17 local government areas of the state on Saturday, 28 December 2013.

But the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will not participate in the elections because of security concerns and alleged plan to rig the polls. It says that it has every reason to believe that the ruling All Progressives Congress ((APC) in the state will manipulate the state electoral body in its favour.

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