Adeyanju however appealed to the eligible voters, who were yet to collect their PVCs, to do so within the time frame provided with the rescheduling of the elections so that they would not be enfranchised by INEC
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He said people should not look at insecurity as only a problem restricted to a particular zone of the country but as a problem confronting the entire country
Muazu, who acknowledged that shifting the date for the general election affected the programme of the PDP, sees no reason not to retain the confidence he has on Jega, especially as President Goodluck Jonathan, who appointed him, has said he does not intend to remove him and members of his team in INEC
The two institutions made the position known in a report submitted to the government and relevant stakeholders, including INEC, after a five-day study in Nigeria
The party joined the Independent National Electoral Commission, the National Security Adviser, the Chief of Defence Staff, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice as co-defendants
Card reader is a device that will be used by the commission to verity the authenticity of the Permanent Voter Cards and determine their owners on election days
The APC candidate and the party executives made this observation when the paid a courtesy visit to the INEC Commissioner in the state, Godwin Kwanga.
Fani-Kayode said the decision to postpone the elections never emanated from the government of President Goodluck Jonathan as being speculated, but from the Independent National Electoral Commission owing to the problem of logistics it encountered
A statement by Dr. Bakili Muluzi, the Chairperson of the group, noted that the decision was taken in “difficult circumstances”
Giving an insight into the voting pattern on Monday, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Movement, Bashir Ibrahim, said 14 out of the country’s 28 political parties voted in support of the shifting of the elections
In a statement issued on Monday by Deepak Obhrai, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and for International Human Rights, he said: “Canada is concerned that Nigeria’s general elections have been postponed
Ban, in the statement, pointed out that the rapid distribution of PVCs to all eligible voters was imperative to ensure credible polls
The party, in a press statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, declared that it is in support of the reasons offered by INEC in shifting the polls, which bother mainly on security concerns in the North East zone
Fashola, however, appealed to Nigerians to remain calm over the development, stressing the need for them to shun anything that could breach the peace
Rex Chosen, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party for UK South-South, said that INEC’s decision should be applauded rather than criticised
Ajiboye said Nigerians should rather ensure they collected their Permanent Voter Cards before the rescheduled dates for the elections
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, the Coordinator of the Front, Comrade Philip Agbese, said the decision of the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has cleared the air on some of the allegations that he has been procured to do the bidding of a particular ethnic group and certain political actors
The elections will now take place on March 28 and April 11.
While the presidential and National Assembly elections will take place on March 28, those of the governorship and the state House of Assembly will be held on April 11
Jega told representatives of the Civil Societies at a meeting in Abuja that he had received a letter from those at the helms of the country’s security agencies that their concerns now is to defeat the Boko Haram insurgency and not to provide security for elections
As at 7:12pm when this report was filed on Saturday, the seat of Jega, a stickler for time, was still vacant at the venue of the scheduled press conference