Breaking News! Reasons Why We Postponed Saturday Election - INEC
INEC has opened up why it postponed the last Saturday Presidential and National Assembly election in the early ours of Saturday in a close door meeting held in Abuja, the FCT of Nigeria. After a marathon meeting which lasted about eight hours, the Independent National Commission (INEC) in the early morning of Saturday announced postponement of the general elections. Consequently, the Presidential and National Assembly elections will come up next Saturday, 23rd February 2019 while the governorship and state Assembly election will now hold on 9th March, 2019. INEC had earlier scheduled today 16th February 2019 for the presidential and National Assembly, while the State elections were scheduled for 2nd March, 2019 before this latest decision by the commission. INEC hinged the postponement of the elections on logistic challenges. INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the National Commissioners met with some observer for hours before reaching the decision. The announcement ca