Now ,it’s official  ; the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC has fixed Thursday 6^th January 2011 for the rerun of the Delta state gubernatorial election . This was announced today after the top echelon of INEC held a meeting .

Mr Solomon Soyebi, the INEC Commissioner in charge of information who made the announcement today  said the arrangement falls within the time-frame given by the Court of Appeal in Benin which ordered the re-run. “We have decided to conduct the election on January 6….As you are aware, the chairman, Professor Jega has always emphasized the commission’s commitment to the tenets and letters of our laws.”

Professor Attahiru Jega, the INEC chairman had on Monday described the Delta re-run as a security challenge. “The Commission has to conduct the re-run Governorship election in DeltaState, which on its own poses a huge security challenge,” Jega said on Monday. 

Newsdiaryonline learnt that the issues of security and logistics were top among the  major subjects deliberated extensively upon before a final date was announced today.

Sacked former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan is seeking to return but there are strong challengers like Omo Agege and Great Ogboru who seem determined to snatch the guber seat from Uduaghan who is a cousin to former Governor James Ibori