Governorship elections were held in 28 states while state legislative elections were held in all of Nigeria's 36 states.
Voting has ended in the governorship and state assembly elections that were held Saturday and the collation of results has begun at local government levels.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how the exercise was held in 1,021 state constituencies - 28 governorship and 993 assembly seats. An interim report on the elections on Saturday said the polls were marred by violence and vote buying. All 18 registered political parties fielded over 400 governorship candidates in the 28 states. The breakdown shows that Abia, Akwa Ibom, Plateau and Taraba States have the highest number of candidates with 18 each followed closely by Delta, Enugu, Kano, Rivers and Sokoto with 17 candidates each. Cross River and Yobe have the least number of candidates with 11 each.
Meanwhile, elections were not conducted in Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Ondo and Osun States where off-cycle polls are held at different times. The electoral calendars of those states were altered due to judicial pronouncements. INEC has already scheduled the elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo for November.
Voting officially ended at 2:30 p.m. and electoral officers have started announcing the collated results of Saturday's elections in some local governments.
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