The Independent National
Electoral Commission has
announced a shift in the 2015
general election earlier
scheduled for February 14 and
28.
Announcing the postponement
at a press conference in Abuja
on Saturday night, the chairman
of the Commission, Attahiru
Jega, said the presidential and
national assembly elections will
now hold on March 28 while the
governorship and state
assemblies election will take
place on April 11.
Mr. Jega said the elections have
to be postponed after the
nation’s security agencies
indicated to the commission that
they were not available to
support the elections planned
for February 14 and 28.
The INEC chairman said security
operatives agencies told INEC
that they were commencing a
six-week special operation
against Boko Haram insurgents
in the north eastern corridors of
the country and would rather
not be distracted by the
elections.
Mr. Jega announced that the
security forces also said the
operations are due to commence
on February 14, the date INEC
had planned for the presidential
and federal legislative elections.
This decision by the security
forces, he said rendered INEC’s readiness and
hitherto insistence to go ahead with the
elections a risky venture.
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