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Nigeria elections pushed one week ahead

TRACY TEDDY NAYIGA | PML Daily Staff Writer by TRACY TEDDY NAYIGA | PML Daily Staff Writer
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President Buhari and Atiku Abubakar, both presidential candidates. (FILE PHOTO)

LAGOS – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) met on February 15 and postponed the 2019 elections that was scheduled for February 16.

According to Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman, Nigeria will not be deciding its next president Saturday as previously planned.

While speaking at the early morning press conference Yakubu said, “a difficult decision has been made after reviewing the commission’s preparations and following a careful logistics and operational plan and the commission came to the conclusion that proceeding as scheduled was no longer feasible.”

He added that the elections could not possibly have progressed as scheduled given anticipated shortages of voting materials, especially ballot papers, in some states.

The presidential and national assembly elections will now be held a week later on February 23 and the governorship, state house of assembly and federal territory (FCT) Area council elections to March 9.

There are more than 70 candidates overall contesting to lead Africa’s largest democracy which has 84 million registered voters.

The long-awaited Nigerian elections have been pushed to Feb 23. (AGENCY PHOTO)

However, there has been tense campaigning by the two leading candidates incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

This is however not new Nigeria because, in 2015, the poll was shifted by six weeks due to security concerns at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency and in 2011, the presidential election was delayed by a week after outbreaks of violence and claims of potential electoral fraud

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