The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will proceed with supplementary elections in Bauchi State on Saturday.
The commission says a court order barring it from collating and announcing results only applied to Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area in Bauchi.
The result of Tafawa Balewa local government was not announced after the March 9 governorship election because the result sheet was initially torn by thugs.
Although the INEC official at the local government later collated the result on a separate result sheet, it was rejected at the state collation centre.
INEC however said it had since generated the results from the various polling units and wards in the local government area and was set to announce it.
The All Progressives Congress, APC and its governorship candidate, Mohammed Abubakar, secured a court injunction barring INEC from proceeding to announce the result of the local government.
On Thursday, INEC spokesperson, Festus Okoye, said supplementary elections earlier scheduled for Saturday will continue in other parts of Bauchi where elections were cancelled or did not hold, adding that the commission had taken steps to vacate the court order on Tafawa Balewa local government.
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bala Mohammed, was leading the APC.candidate before the election was declared inconclusive.
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