Breaking: INEC speaks on postponement of Nigeria’s election

Following rumours that it has postponed the

General election scheduled for Saturday,

February 16th, 2019, the Independent National

Electoral Commission, INEC, has spoken on the

issues.

As journalists keep vigil at the commission’s

headquarters in Abuja, Rotimi Oyekanmi, the

chief press secretary to INEC’s chairman,

Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has informed the

newsmen that the commission has taken a

decision after a crucial meeting attended by the

chairman and 12 national commissioners.

Top officials of the commission had, earlier on,

gone into a crucial meeting at its headquarters,

following concerns that some electoral materials

were destroyed in some states while also, some

available electoral materials were yet to get to

some other states.

As a result of the crucial meeting, fears were and

are still being nursed in some quarters as to the

fate of the election as the situation keeps pointing

to a possible postponement of the election.

This is following INEC’s complaint of some

technical constraints it has faced few days to the

election which may have affected its preparations

for the conduct of the elections.

However, when prodded to clarify on whether the

election would hold or if it had been postponed,

Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi simply said, “A decision has

been taken, but you’d have to hear from the

horse’s mouth.”

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