INEC adjourns announcement of presidential election results till Monday

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has adjourned the announcement of results of the presidential election till 11am on Monday.

Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the commission, made the announcement after declaring the collation center open.

“The collation centre has been declared open. At the moment no state collation officer has arrived,” Yakubu said.

Earlier, Yakubu had said the exercise would commence at 6pm. He said the resident electoral commissioner (REC) of Ekiti state was on his way to the International Conference Center (ICC) in Abuja with the results of the state, giving the impression that the announcement will kick off with the results of Ekiti.

“We expect the state collation officers for the presidential election to start arriving the national collation centre later today and early morning tomorrow,” Yakubu had said

“Ekiti has already concluded the process. The state collation officer as we speak is on his way. They have also concluded the senatorial and house of representatives and have since made declaration of the winners.”

But he later said no collation officer from the states had arrived Abuja with results.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar are the leading candidates in the election.