INEC Returning Officer in Bauchi remains unavailable, delays collation

Almost Seven hours after the Bauchi State Resident Electoral Commissioner blamed the delay in commencing collation of the supplementary election results on the absence of the State Returning Officer (RO), Muhammed Kyari, the top INEC ad-hoc staff is still yet to show up.

Mr Kyari, a professor and the Vice Chancellor of Modibo Adama University of Technology, Yola, according to State REC, left Yola 9 p.m. on Saturday to the collation centre in Bauchi.

The distance between Bauchi and Yola is 309km which takes about six hours for a normal trip.