Inec to hold an interim selection in 12 countries on August 16

The Independent National Election Commission (INEC) has set August.16 For the implementation of the elections circulating in 16 constituents in 12 states in the country,

Chairperson Inec, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, announced this during the commission quarterly meeting with political parties on Thursday in Abuja.

Jacobu noted that the commission would mobilize 30,451 officials for the selection of interruptions involving a total of 3,553,659 registered voters spread across 32 local government areas in 356 wards and 6,987 voting units in the country.

He remembered that in the last two years since the inauguration of the National and State Assembly in June 2023, vacancies that needed the election of interruptions occurred nationally.

Jacobu also remembers that in February 2025, Inec conducted nine BYE selections to fill vacancies produced from the death or resignation of members of the National and State Assembly, noted that more emptles had occurred.

He said: “The extraordinary Bye selection involved two Senator Anambra South and Edo Central districts.

“Five Federal Constituents of Ovia South-West/Ovia Southeast in Edo, Babura/Garki in Jigawa, Chikun/Kajuru in the states of Kaduna, Ikenne/Shagamu/North Remo in Ogun and North Ibadan in Oyo.

“Nine electoral areas of the state of Ganye in Adamawa, Onitsha North I in Anambra, Dekina/Okura in Kogi, Zaria Kewaye and Basawa are both in the state of Kaduna.

“Other constituents are Bagwai/Shanono in Kano, Mariga in Niger, Karim Lamido I in Taraba and Kuran Selatan Namoda in Zamfara.”

He, however, said that apart from the declaration of vacancies, the selection of interruptions will not apply in the constituents of the Khana II state in the river and the state constituents in the river and the Mafara Talata Constituents in the southern state in Zamfara.

He explained that the non-construction of the selection of interruptions in the river was due to the current emergency in the state.

The Chairperson Inec said the Zamfara case was due to a delayed legal problem.

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