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, told DAILY POST 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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