16 POLITICAL PARTIES WANT ELECTION POSTPONED BY 6 WEEKS

Sixteen out of twenty-eight political parties have asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to delay the general election by six weeks.

As of the time of filing this report, Attahiru Je‎ga, INEC chairman is still in a meeting with the representatives of the parties.

Some of the parties who called for the postponement are United Democratic Party, the Citizen Peoples Party, the Peoples Party of Nigeria, Action Alliance, Peoples Democratic Congress, Labour Party, Unity Party of Nigeria, Alliance for Democracy, Democratic Peoples Party, the New Nigerian Peoples Party and the Independent Dem
ocrat.

He is expected to address a press conference by 5:00 pm Saturday to announce INEC’s decision.