Nigerians will be all out this morning from 8:00 am to Elect the Governors into the 28 State House who will be having their Governorship Election Today.
Today their will be election into
(1) 28 State Governorship Election
(2) 991 State House of Assemblies seats Election in all the 36 states
The governorship and state assembly elections are being held a week later than initially scheduled after a court case forced the Independent National Electoral Commission to move it forward.
Eight of the 36 states — Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Osun, and Ondo — have governorship elections “off-season” due to litigations and court judgements.
While 28 states where governorship elections will be coming up this morning, the states are:
Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara.
Of the 28 states, 11 serving governors are seeking reelection while 17 outgoing governors are in the final weeks of their constitutional two-term limits of eight years, having been sworn in on May 29, 2015.
Once again welcome to Nigeria Decides 2023 Governorship and State House of Assemblies Seats Election.
PHOTOS OF LIVE RESULTS;
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From a correspondent in Rivers State:
I was shocked, In my polling Unit at Woji Town Hall . OBio Akpor LGA , WARD 6 Unit 3. The turn out was Extremely low at about 9 am. At the same time on the 25th of February, Everywhere was blocked. It was Over Crowded. Turn out today is like 5% of February 25th .
Gubernatorial Elections in Rivers
I just voted , while going home , I observed it was same thing in d other polling Units in my Ward.
These are pictures from different polling units in my Ward
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President Buhari Casts His Votes For Governorship And State House Of Assembly
Buhari cast his vote in Daura
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LP Candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour Casts His Vote (Photos)
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