Nigeria General Election has been Postponed

The Independent National Electoral Commission has decided
to shift Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly
elections till next week 23 February.
It was one of the decisions reached early today in a crunch
talk between between INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood
Yakubu and 12 national commissioners in Abuja, according to
sources close to the meeting.
Professor Yakubu will be briefing the media later today on the
decision, amidst reports of logistics problems faced by the
commission.
The meeting, which began Friday evening, was still in progress
up till 1.30 a.m.
Rotimi Oyekanmi, the chief press secretary to the INEC
chairman told newsmen that the decision of the meeting will
be communicated later today and that some decision about
the election had been reached.
“I can confirm to you that the INEC Chairman and the 12
national commissioners are in the meeting.
” Decisions have been taken and you will be addressed later,”
Oyekanmi said.
Presidential and National Assembly elections are scheduled to
take place throughout the country today, while governorship
and state assembly elections will take place on 2 March.
The national elections are expected to hold at 119,973 polling
units across the country while collation of results will take
place in 8,809 Registration Areas or Wards, 774 Local
Government Areas and 36 States and the FCT.
It will not be the first time that the commission would
postpone a scheduled general election.
In 2015, the presidential election was shifted from February 14
to March 28th, 2015; while the governorship and assembly
elections scheduled for 28 February were shifted to 11 April.

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