With the Presidential, National Assembly, governorship and state Assembly elections held, though supplementary elections were ordered in six states by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, following their inconclusiveness, a new date of March 23, has, however, been fixed for supplementary elections to be held in those states, namely: Benue, Kano, Sokoto, Bauchi, Plateau and Adamawa.
With the elections almost out of the way, attention is gradually shifting fully to the tribunals.
As a matter of fact, the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubabar is at the tribunal already. One common feature in the just-concluded February 23 and March 9 elections is the violence that characterised the process. About 30 persons were said to have been killed during the Presidential and National Assembly elections of February 23.
About the same number was killed during the governorship and state Assembly elections. Aside the deaths recorded, many…