Section 76

(1) Elections to each House of the National Assembly shall be held on a date to be appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission in accordance with the Electoral Act.

[A substitution for "Sixty days before and not later than the date on which the House Stands dissolved", "three months", and "thirty days", respectively made by Section 5(b)(i),(ii),&(iii) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (First Alteration) Act, 2010]

(2) The date mentioned in subsection (1) of this section shall not be earlier than one hundred and fifty days and not later than thirty days before, or where the election to fill a vacancy occurring more than ninety days before such date; not later than thirty days after the vacancy occurred.