INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the dates said that the Presidential and National Assembly elections would be held on February 16, 2019 while the state elections, including governorship and State Assembly elections would follow two weeks later on March 2. The House, in passing amendments to Section 25(1) of the Electoral Act reordered the elections and proposed that the National Assembly elections would come first on the order. In the 2015 elections order, presidential and National Assembly elections came first, while the state elections, governorship and State Assembly elections came next. That order was reversed in 2015 when national elections held same day while state elections came weeks after. But the elections got shifted as the national elections held on March 28, while state elections were held on April 11.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 11, 2018 02:26 UTC