Nigeria's National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the general elections scheduled for next month. Speaking at a forum in London, the NSA said 'the loopholes in the distribution of permanent voters card' has left about 30 million registered voters without their cards thereby denying them the right to vote.
Col. Dasuki asked the commission to consider shifting the polls to a later date noting that it would be wrong to conduct elections two months before the tenure of the present administration expires when a large section of the country are yet to get their PVCs.
This position has however been rejected by the leading opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Reacting to Dasuki's comments, the opposition party's National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed noted that the call by the NSA is ill-timed and clearly an attempt to buy more time for the Peoples Democratic Party to canvass more support for its candidate.
He said the election should not be postponed under any circumstance and asked Nigerians to reject the move. The party also called on the international community to 'urgently extract a commitment from President Goodluck Jonathan that the elections will hold as scheduled next month, and that he will respect the outcome'.
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