The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is currently holding re-run elections in seven states in the country; Kaduna, Plateau, Niger, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi and Taraba State.
Elections in Langtang South, Plateau State were cancelled for security reasons while that of Imo has been postponed indefinitely owing to violent protest.
The elections are coming after judicial processes which made the Appeal Court to rule for fresh conduct of the exercise in close to twenty constituencies of the seven states.
In Benue State, accreditation and voting has commenced in Otukpo Local Government Area.
The process was reportedly smooth until violence erupted in Idabi polling unit, Okete ward, following a disagreement on the relocation of the polling unit.
While an agent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) insists that elections in that ward had been held at the same venue since 1999, the All Progressive Congress (APC) agent says the party had written to INEC to relocate the polling unit due to irregularities in previous polls.
Meanwhile in Kogi State, there was fairly large turnout of voters in Adavi and Okene Local Government Area, with card readers reported to have failed in two of the polling units, prompting officials to resort to the use of incidence forms
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