The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said that only an Act of God can stop the conduct of the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly election slated for Saturday.
Professor Yakubu stated this in Abuja while addressing a cross section of the diplomatic community and international election monitoring groups in Nigeria, for the 2019 General Elections.
The briefing which was organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in conjunction with INEC was aimed at engaging with friends and partners of Nigeria on the rescheduled election.
Yakubu, who was represented by an INEC National Commissioner, Dr Mustapha Lecky, said that the commission had put in place everything possible to ensure the elections hold on Saturday.
The INEC boss, who said that the commission had no reason to feel that anything would stop the conduct of the election on Feb 23, noted that they have developed a six-point agenda of what needed to be done to ensure success of the election as they have completed the deployment
of materials.
The official said that INEC had already taken responsibility for the postponement and that the body was committed to surpass achievement of previous elections in the country blaming the postponement on logistics and problems associated with the primaries of some political parties, which according to him delayed the printing of ballot papers.
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