With barely two weeks to the general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that elections will not hold in about 240 polling units across 28 States of the federation.
According to the electoral umpire the poling units where elections will not hold includes one in Edo, Kwara, Rivers and Zamfara States to 38 in Imo State which has the highest.
The electoral umpire also warned that it will not tolerate a circumstance where two or more party agents report to the polling units, causing confusion, adding that any agent found to be engaged in such act will be arrested and prosecuted.
The INEC boss, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made the disclosure at a consultative meeting with leaders of the 18 registered political parties ahead of the elections clarified that the affected polling units have no registered voter hence, no eligible voter will be disenfranchised.
He said with the exclusion it the 240 polling units, election will take place in about 176,606 polling units across the country
