The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the 2023 House of Representatives election conducted in Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu inconclusive.
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This is coming following the discrepancy between the margin of winners and cancellation of results in two Polling Units of the Federal Constituency.
Adams Baba, the Returning Officer, who made the decision to declare the result inconclusive in Kabba on Sunday, said, the difference in the results between the African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Salman Idris and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Kolawole Matthew, was not up to the number of registered voters in the cancelled Polling Units.
He said: “The ADC candidate polled 13867 while the APC polled 13605 leaving just 262 votes difference whereas the number of PVC collected in the cancelled polling units of Iya in Otu ward in Kabba/Bunu LGA (485) and Open Space polling unit in Egbeda ward of Ijumu LGA (100) is more than the difference.”
The Returning Officer is yet to announce when the election will be re-conducted in the affected Polling Units.
