- Insists: Why Elections Won’t Be Postponed!
Despite fear of security concerns occasioned by spread violence and kidnapping orchestrated by unknown gunmen, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu insisted that the general elections would still hold at the earlier scheduled dates.
The chairman who was meeting members of the eighteen political parties for the first time this year already penciled down to participate in the 2023 general elections, said the commission was not contemplating postponement of the exercise let alone to council it.
Against this declaration, he stated categorically that the 25th February, 2023 scheduled date for the presidential election and 11th Match, 2023 dates for the conduct of the governorship and state House of Assembly elections remain sacrosanct.
The chairman disclosed that the repeated assurances given by security operatives in the country for the protection of materials and personnels reinforce the confidence of the commission to proceed with the election exercise.
Yakubu who presented voters’ register to members of the different political parties present, stated that never before had the commission be so prepared for any e!section conducted in Nigeria.
He disclosed that the commission had already implemented eleven out of the fourteen activities on schedule for the conduct of the general elections
The chairman who promised to deal decisively with any individual or group threatening to truncate the exercise, stated that INEC would not adjust it’s calendar for any reason whatsoever.
The INEC Boss also disclosed that a total of 93, 469, 008 registered for the election, adding that of this number male voters recorded the highest.
