INEC postpones national elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed Presidential and National Assembly elections till next week
23 February.

INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu:

The Governorship and State Assembly elections will take place on 9 March, instead of 2 March as initially scheduled.

It was one of the decisions reached early today in a crucial talk
between INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu and 12 national
commissioners in Abuja, according to sources close to the meeting.

Professor Yakubu will be briefing the media later today on the
decision, amidst reports of logistics problems faced by the commission.

Presidential and National Assembly elections are scheduled to take
place throughout the country today, while governorship and state
assembly elections are scheduled to take place on 2 March.

The national elections are expected to hold at 119,973 polling units
across the country while collation of results will take place in 8,809
Registration Areas or Wards, 774 Local Government Areas and 36 States
and the FCT.

It will not be the first time that the commission would postpone a scheduled general election.

In 2015, the presidential election was shifted from February 14 to
March 28th, 2015; while the governorship and assembly elections
scheduled for 28 February were shifted to 11 April.