Sixteen political parties and four presidential candidates have called for the postponement of the general elections

This was made known on their behalf by the presidential candidate of the
United Democratic Party, UDP, Godson Okoye, on Tuesday at a news
conference in Abuja.

Among the parties are United Democratic Party, UDP; the Citizen Peoples
Party, CPP; the Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN; the Action Alliance, AA;
the Peoples Democratic Congress, PDC; the Labour Party, LP; Unity Party
of Nigeria, UPN; Alliance for Democracy, AD; the Democratic Peoples
Party, DPP; the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP; and the Independent
Democrat, ID.
The
other presidential candidates who want the election dates shifted are
Sam Ekeh of CPP, Anifowose Kelani of AA, and Ganiyu Galadima of ACPN.
There are 26 registered parties and 14 presidential candidates.

The
presidential and the national assembly elections are fixed for February
14 while the governorship and state houses of assembly come up on
February 28.The
parties said the current security challenge in the north east zone of
the country and the untidy manner the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, handled the distribution of the Permanent Voters Card
informed their “patriotic” call for the postponement of the polls.</span></div>
In
their words, a credible election could not hold in a country where a
geo- political zone would be practically excluded due to insecurity.We
the concerned leaders of political parties have observed some dangerous
trends, which if not checked may negatively and adversely affect our
democracy”, the parties said.

They
also argued that the postponement of the election would not in any way
contravene the provisions of Section 25 and 26 of the Electoral Act.
According to him, it would give the electoral body adequate time to
distribute the remaining PVCs to registered voters.

They
said, “We are not urging INEC to do anything that is unlawful, illegal
or unconstitutional. It is unfortunately becoming clear by the day that
most Nigerians appear not to be ready for election but are ready for
violence”.They said they would not participate in the election if INEC failed to heed their call to shift the elections.

They
also criticised the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, for meeting
only the PDP and APC presidential candidates, President Goodluck
Jonathan and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari during his recent visit to Nigeria.Also
on Tuesday, the presidential candidate of the United Progressive Party,
UPP, Chekwas Okorie, kicked against calls for the postponement of the
polls.

He
said since INEC had admitted that over 80 per cent of the PVCs had been
distributed, there was no need shifting the elections.
He
also argued that there is no country in the world, including the United
States, where 80 per cent of the voting population participated in an
election.Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, had earlier spoken against postponing the elections.

http://www.metronaija.com/2015/02/16-political-parties-threaten-to.html

Ok, Nigerians will threaten to boycott ellection if it is postponed too.
Two can play that game.