2023: INEC fixes new dates for elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed new dates for the 2023 general elections.

Chairman of the electoral body, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, revealed this at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday

According to Yakubu, the Presidential and National Assembly elections will now hold on Saturday, February 25, 2023.

Governorship and state houses of assembly elections will hold on March 11, 2023.

Yakubu explained that the new date is to allow for conformity with the provisions of the Electoral laws which stipulates that elections notice be published at least 260 days to the elections

The INEC boss also said the electoral guidelines will also be published in due course.

The new Act states that INEC must publish the notice of election at least 360 days to the polls.

Several groups had called on the President to sign the bill before February 22, 2022, in order to ensure that INEC would not need to change the date in conformity with the Act.