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INEC Addresses Nigerians On ‘Plan To Postpone 2019 General Election’ (Full Statement)

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6 years ago

September 13, 2018

Ahead of the 2019 general election, the nation’s electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has addressed Nigerians over a reported plan to postpone the election.
In a press release by the chief press secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), restated that there is no plan to postpone the 2019 general election.

It was gathered that a newspaper had reported that INEC might shift the 2019 polls over threats of violence, and quoted the national chairman to have said this at the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting that took place at the commission’s headquarters on September 11.

Part of INEC’s new statement read: “Our attention has been drawn to a story with the headline – We May Shift 2019 Polls Over Threat Of Violence – INEC which appeared on the front page of a national newspaper today, but which did not correctly reflect what the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu said at the meeting.

“It is thus clear that at no point during his remarks did the INEC Chairman allude to the notion that the Commission “may shift 2019 polls over threat of violence” as reported by the national newspaper. To be sure, INEC has no plan to postpone the 2019 General Elections.”

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