Kaduna bows to pressure, shift LG elections to 5th June

Following severe criticism mounted for non-compliant with the law and guidelines for fixing date elections and others, the Kaduna state independent electoral commission (KADSIECOM) Thursday rescheduled the date of 2021 Local Government elections to 5th June this year.

The KadSIECOM election committee has also been reconstituted in line with the KadSIECOM law of the state commission.

This was announced during stakeholders meeting with leaders of all the political parties held at the commission office in Kaduna, Wednesday.

Announcing the new date, the acting Chairman of the commission Ibrahim Sambo said the change of the date became imperative in view of the criticisms that trailed the commission earlier date of not following the due process of fixing the local government elections date.

He said “in consonance with the section 25 (1) of KadSIECOM law no. 2, 2018, as amended, the general public is hereby informed that the Local Government Councils election holds in Kaduna state on Saturday 5th June 2021 between 8:00 am- 4:00 pm”.

Tentative timetable and guidelines for the 2021 Kaduna LG councils election and activities preceding the announcement of the new date were distributed to all the representatives of the political partial attended the emergency stakeholders meeting.

Questions concerning mistakes of the 2018 LG election including the inability to conduct the postponed election in some LG areas among others salient issues of malpractice were raised and answered.

The stakeholders pleaded for time to study the guidelines and to know what other things necessary to clarify, and the chairman obliged them