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2023 elections: INEC reviews dates for conduct of 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections

INEC announces February 25 as a new date for the conduct of the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Extension of date from February 18 to February 25, 2023, is to comply with the 360-day notice of election provided in the newly signed Electoral Act.

The Campaign for 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections to kick-off on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, and end at midnight Thursday, February 23, 2023

2023 Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections to hold on March 11 with campaigns to hold between Wednesday, October 12, 2022, and Thursday, March 9, 2023

The new dates were announced at the end of the extraordinary meeting of the Commission which was called after the signing of the 2022 Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law on Friday by President Muhammadu Buhari.