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The Independent National Electoral
Commission has fixed dates for the conduct
of governorship elections in Kogi and
Bayelsa states.
The commission said in Abuja on Friday
that governorship election will hold in Kogi
State on November 21 while that of Bayelsa
State is to hold on December 5, 2015.
This information was contained in a
statement by INEC’s Chairman, Information
and Voter Education Committee, Dr. Chris
Iyimoga.
Iyimoda added that primaries for the
elections shall be held on or before August
23, 2015 and September 5, 2015,
respectively for the two states in
accordance with the provisions of the
Electoral Act 2014 (as amended).
The commission added that campaigns by
political parties shall commence on July 24
and end on November 29 in Kogi while that
of Bayelsa will be from September 6 to
December 4, 2015.
Governorship elections did not hold in the
affected states during the last April 11
governorship election because the tenure of
the two governors have yet to end.
The two states are in the hand of the main
opposition party, the Peoples Democratic
Party.
However, while Governor Idris Wada of
Kogi State is battling with the All
Progressives Congress, which has made
serious incursion into the state, Governor
Seriake Dickson on the other, is facing
internal rebellion within his party in Bayelsa
State.
The APC had the upper hand in Kogi State
during the last general electios.
Meanwhile, there are also rumours that
Wada may be denied his party’s ticket for
the election due to what a member of the
National Working Committee of the PDP
attributed to the governor’s “poor
performance.”
“The information we are having is that
Wada is not doing well and that if we field
him, we may lose the state,” the source
added.
Indication that Wada may not have things
easy appears to be manifesting.
When the governor visited the party
headquarters over the cancellation of the
ad-hoc delegates for the Ward Congresses
in the state 10 days ago, he stormed out of
the party national secretariat, shortly after
meeting with the Acting National Chairman
of the party, Prince Uche Secondus.
Wada, who arrived at the party secretariat
early in the morning to have a meeting the
NWC, was kept waiting for hours.