BREAKING: INEC declares Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu reps election inconclusive

The 2023 Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu House of Representatives election has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

This followed the difference between the margin of the leading candidate for the results collated and the number of cancelled votes in two polling units of the federal Constituency.

The returning officer, Adams Baba who declared the election inconclusive in Kabba on Sunday said the difference in number of votes between the leading candidate, Arch Salman Idris of African Democractic Congress (ADC) and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kolawole Matthew was not up to the number of PVCs collected in the two polling units were election was cancelled.

The ADC candidate polled thirteen thousand, eight hundred and sixty seven votes while the APC candidate polled thirteen thousand, six hundred and five votes, leaving two hundred and sixty two votes difference, whereas the number of PVC collected in the cancelled polling units of Iya in Otu ward in Kabba/Bunu LGA is four hundred and eighty five.

The returning officer however did not mention when a rerun election will be conducted in the affected polling units.