Scrap supplementary poll, Situation Room tells INEC

The Presidential Election Petitions Court on Wednesday ruled that INECwas at liberty to decide the mode of transmission of election results.

The practice of conducting supplementary elections has become a weapon for manipulating the electoral process in Nigeria and should be jettisoned, the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, said on Sunday. The organisation was expressing concern over widespread irregularities, especially violence in supplementary elections held on Saturday in Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto states. […]