The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked reports that the body was planning to
postpone Saturday’s elections.
Presidential and National
Assembly elections are scheduled to hold in few hours.
National Commissioner for Voter
Education and Publicity at INEC, Mr. Festus Okoye said on Friday night
that Nigerians should ignore the rumours.
His words: “If stories are flying
about, allow the stories to fly. What they are reporting is not true.”
Asked to respond to information
that INEC commissioners were in a meeting, Okoye said: “Yes we are in a meeting
but we have not taken such decision.
“This is election period and as
commissioners, we meet every time”.
Meanwhile, the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said his camp
had foiled a plan to rig the polls in favour of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari.
However, the recent development
of INEC offices being set ablaze in Abia, Anambra, and Plateau states by
‘mysterious fire’, where thousands of electoral materials were burnt, could be
major threat to the election.
Also, earlier on Friday, the
commission in Niger State announced that elections for the senatorial positions
of Niger East and Niger North may not hold on Saturday as the ballot papers
meant for the zone were missing.
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