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Elections will be held for 29 governors and 36 state bademblies.
INEC announced the delay a few hours before the opening of the presidential and parliamentary elections in the West African country.
State governors in Nigeria control huge budgets and have a great influence on the country's politics.
It is generally expected that elections across the country will be a race between the candidates of the All Progressive Congress of Buhari (APC) and the Democratic People's Party (PDP), the main party in the country. opposition, although other political parties have nominated candidates at different levels.
Polling stations open at 8:00 am local time and officially close at 14:00. Results are not expected until Sunday at the earliest.
Jimi Agbaje, candidate for governor of the opposition party, hopes to break with this long term.
"Lagos is Africa's fifth largest economy, but it does not have much to show in terms of infrastructure, in terms of quality of life, as I've said," Agbaje told CNN.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the ruling APC candidate, said he planned to tackle chronic traffic problems in the city in order to improve these clues.
"We are looking for innovative solutions to solve the traffic problem … we will see if it is possible to set up an integrated public transport system using the train, the water and the rapid transport system. by bus, "said Sanwo-Olu. told CNN.
There are fears of repetition of pockets of violence during the presidential vote in February.
A few hours before the vote, bombs exploded in the capital of Borno State, Maiduguri.
The Nigerian army also said that it had prevented suspected militants from attacking a military outpost in Yobe State. The two states are often targets of the Boko Haram terrorist group, which has waged a carnage war in northern Nigeria.
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