28 States Where Gov Elections Will Hold On March 18, 2023
Governorship elections
won't hold in eight states due to litigations and court judgements.
With Presidential and National Assembly elections concluded and results
declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, albeit with the
attendant legal tussles following, the battlegrounds have shifted to states.
Nigerians will head to the polls again on Saturday, March 18, 2023 to
elect governors and state assembly members.
In all, 18 political parties fielded candidates for the governorship
elections slated to hold in 28 out of the 36 states of the Federation.
This is so because the governorship elections of eight states (Anambra,
Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Osun and Ondo) are held off-season due to
litigations and court judgements.
Be it as it may, elections for members of state legislature will hold in
the 36 states of the Federation.
Thousands of candidates are competing for 993 State Houses of Assembly
seats. This data is according to statistics by the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC).
In alphabetical order, the 28 states where governorship elections will
hold on March 18, 2023 are: Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Borno,
Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi,
Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba,
Yobe, Zamfara.
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