Twenty one Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have rejected a proposal to postpone Nigeria’s general elections billed for February 14 and 28.

In a vote conducted Saturday by the INEC chairman, Attahiru Jega, after he met with political parties and the civil society, 21 RECs said the elections should continue as planned while 16 others voted in support of a reschedule.

Nigeria has 37 RECs, each for a state and the Federal Capital, Abuja.

The outcome of the vote came as Nigerians await INEC’s decision on whether the elections are moved or not.

Civil Society leaders said Mr. Jega had told them at their meeting that the commission was under pressure to postpone the polls after all security agencies, including the military and the police, warned that they will only support polls held at least six weeks after the current dates.

Jibrin Ibrahim, a senior fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, in Abuja, who was at the meeting, said Mr. Jega told the meeting that security operatives told INEC that they were commencing a six weeks special operations against Boko Haram insurgents in the north eastern corridors of the country and would rather not be distracted by the elections.

Mr. Jega announced that the security forces also said the operations are due to commence on February 14, the date INEC had planned for the presidential and federal legislative elections.
Earlier, 17 political parties out of the total 28 voted in support of an extension.

The opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, has rejected any plan to postpone the election saying such calls are sponsored by President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling party to stave their imminent defeat at the polls.

It is not clear what the commission’s eventual decision would be with the latest voting pattern by the RECs.

Mr. Jega is expected to brief the media any moment from now.


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So ol wot Gej need nw 2 clean d BH mess is 6wks nd which hs 2 start 4rm d day scheduld 4 election wen he hs got years 2 do d needful bt faild....somtyms i wonda if ds man think Nigerians r fools. Wel, lets wait nd c hw ds drama wil end....bt then, Sai Buhari!

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Hmm...

Source pls

They may have to look for local hunters to escort voting materials then.

Press confrence of the year already....this anxiety can kill"

Alhamdulillah

They had better returned the bribe they collected from APC because the elections stand postponed.

security operatives told
INEC that they were commencing a six weeks
special operations against Boko Haram
insurgents in the north eastern corridors of the
country and would rather not be distracted by
the elections...

They had to wait till few weeks to the general election before commencing "Special" operations against BH?

IbnSultaan:
Press confrence of the year already....this anxiety can kill"

seriously o. av been reloading d inec twitter handle since morning for d latest

INEC may be under pressure to postpone election,but Chief Press Sec to Jega told The Nation no announcement has been made on INEC's decision"

Sunnybobo3:
They may have to look for local hunters to escort voting materials then.

clevvermind:
Fvck them!!! Up Jonathan. Those who want to cry can start now.

nwafuluozoh:
They had better returned the bribe they collected from APC because the elections stand postponed.

It's now obvious that the PDPians are cowards. If you're so sure your boss would win the Election, then let's go on with the Election. Buhari is no longer a serial loser. PDPians are cowards.

#ElectionMustHold

Looking forward to opening a weeping thread for the PDPians when Jega finally announces that the Election would still hold on the scheduled date!

majority carries the vote,foolish security operatives witheir clueless CinC,them no remember say dem go fight bokoharam since na now wey we wan do election all of them suddenly realise that they are ready to fight bokoharam. Let them go and fight the boko boys while them give us gun to protect our votes and election.
Foolish military that has been fighting bokoharam for six years now,so in in six weeks dem go win the war.
Fayose and co don rig their own,Gej suddenly realises than nigerian are not like ekiti citizens.
#CHANGE is inevitable

Delay is dangerous pls i dont want to continue with this I will do president am tired sai BUHARI

Yesss! if they like, they should postpone. in fact, elections should not hold and gej should continue till 2023. No matter what, he will still leave that seat and he will pass in history as one of the worst leader Nigeria ever had.

Obj was there for eight years and now, another 8years has passed. where is he? in ota farm. come rain come shine, gej is leaving Aso rock. 2015 or 2019.

however, the nonsense about fighting BH should stop. it is part of gej's campaign claims that no leader has stopped insurgency in the world till date. why is he asking for 6weeks to do that? we Nigerians are wiser and we know when politics is taking the place of moral reasoning.

peace. see you all as we #March4Buhari come march #2hateGEJ

dear president goodluck jonathan

You had 6 years to change Nigeria. 6 good years.
In those 6 years if you had at least improved our electricity and we no longer have to buy diesels and petrol into our generators, no one would have supported buhari today.

But honestly mr. President you have done nothing in 6years and now all these election postponement saga just to rig it??

Diaris God oooo

An attempt to delay the inevitable...so childish.
The invigilator says "time up! Submit!" and the student pleads "please sir, I need 5 more minutes"
5 minutes to try and answer the questions he'd been unable to for the past three hours, and he knows he's out of ideas.

Got nothing to say....4ck Nigeria!

#SayNo2PostponementOfElecttion

realy ....

So the same Military that says it can't guarantee our security during elections is the same military flooding Lagos,Kaduna and other places with heavily armed, rain-faced, trigger-happy and combat ready soldiers today, ready to crush any protesting group.

I just pray the military hierarchy won't bank on the gullibility of these desperate ruling (Ruining?) Party, to take us back to the evil days we've put behind us

Nairalanders, Kindly take precautionary measures this time, in the game of AK, once you're hit, its game over, no replay o, the government gives no damn about you, the dude who was killed in Lagos during the subsidy protest, what did they do?, he died for nothing

Whether FeBuhari or March4Buhari, we have decided!

Change is all we want, Change we will surely get!

Sai Baba, Sai Buhari!

I can bet it . Does 21 are all from northern and some SW states. They what to install GMB at all cost to the detriment of true democracy.
APC go and die. No election till vast majority of nigerians have their cards and NE is safe for vote.

i am agnst postponement cz it will scatter my schedule

btw oga seun,hows NL 10th anniverary gon' be?

48million out 68.5 million voters in a country of 170million people are the only ones to vote in Nigeria & people want me to believe that is an election.
INEC is not ready & if postment will enable more people vote, so shall it be, commisioners or not.

Be it now, be it next year, its still CHANGE, infact PDP has a chance of gathering more votes now (although they can't win). The more time they waste, the more the "ekiti audio" will circulate and more of their supporters will be disappointed in them. Even the polls postponement is making some disappointed already

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PDP and GEJ in trouble! Elections must hold as planned.

9ja why??