INEC Sets for Polls in Five Disputed States.

In spite of the court ruling barring the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting gubernatorial elections in five states of the federation in the forth coming election, the commission has included the states in its preparations for the governorship elections scheduled for April 16, 2011.

Justice Adamu Bello of the Abuja High Court had ruled that the tenure of governors Timipre Sylva, Bayelsa; Liyel Imoke, Cross River; Ibrahim Idris, Kogi; Aliyu Wamakko, Sokoto; and Murtala Nyako, Adamawa, would end in 2012, instead of this year as widely assumed by INEC.

The ruling has engendered confusion in the polity prompting INEC to file an appeal to …