The Independent National Electoral Commission has postphoned the governorship and House of Assembly election by seven days.
The election will now hold on 18 March 2023.
The INEC Commissioner for Voters Education and Information, Mr Festus Okoye disclosed this late yesterday in Abuja.
The postponement The Pond News understands is to enable INEC reconfigure the BVAS machine.
It would be recalled that both the presidential candidate of the PDP Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi took INEC to the presidential election petition court not to reconfigure the BVAS machine so as not to tamper with the results of the presidential and national assembly elections results held on February 25 2023.
It was only yesterday that the court ruled that INEC should go ahead to reconfigure the BVAS machine for the governorship and House of Assembly elections.
The Pond News understands that it takes about seven days for technical staff of INEC to reconfigure the BVAS machine
It would be recalled that the failure of the electoral body to electronically transfer results from the polling units to INEC has been at centre of dispute between INEC and the political parties.
The PDP and the Labour Party presidential candidates blamed their defeat to the deliberate refusal of INEC to electronically transfer election result from the polling unit to INEC server.
Amidst cash crunch because of the controversial CBN redesigned Naira policy and fuel scarcity, the seven days breather is an opportunity for political parties to court the voters.
Here in Delta State, the political climate is tension soaked between the ruling PDP and opposition APC.
With gale of defection from PDP to APC, it is a difficult task to predict the winner as the two party are running neck and neck.
The lesser known Labour Party governorship candidate Mr Kennedy Pela is trying to ride on the popularity of Peter Obi to contest the polls even though most supporters of LP have switched their support for the APC governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo Agege.
