Ahead of today’s National Council of State meeting, All Progressives Congress, APC, governors were, yesterday, mobilizing to fend off pressures to use the platform to push forward agitations for the postponement of this month’s scheduled elections.
A number of APC governors, who had in the past stayed away from the meeting, were last night headed for Abuja to add verve to the opposition to the postponement. APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, who had in the past three years also ignored the meeting according to feelers, could show up today. There were also speculations that former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who had also been absent in recent meetings, could attend the meeting.
Conflicting views on holding the election were, yesterday, projected by different political platforms even as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, put forth a strong rebuttal to a Reuters dispatch of the possibility of a postponement.
A group of activists, yesterday, laid siege to the gates of INEC, demanding the postponement of the election based on sundry reasons, including unavailability of the Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs in the south and alleged failure to cater for Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs in the North-East.
Presidential candidate of the United Progressive Party, UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie, however, condemned the calls as he warned that a postponement could lead to anarchy.
Give INEC free hand — Buhari
Buhari in a statement ahead of today’s meeting said that there was no basis for a postponement given what he said was the assurance by the election management body that it was set for the polls.
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