Parliamentary elections of Nigeria is postponed!

Nigeria which is the most over populated country in Africa is holding its presidential and parliamentary elections till the 9th of April, over 73million people are registered to vote while 78 population is not voting at all Age wise majoritly!

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PRESS RELEASE Nº034/2011

NIGERIA: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS POSTPONED

However, the Independent National Electoral Committee (INEC) declared in the vote would be postponed to Monday 4^th of April. According to a statement issued by Professor Attahiru M. Jega, Chairman of INEC, said“in many places, our officials have not reported at the polling units, making it now difficult to implement the Modified Open Ballot Procedure that we have adopted. …… While we could have proceeded with the elections in a few states of the country where all the materials are available such as Lagos, Kaduna, Kebbi, Delta, Zamfara and Enugu, among others, in order to maintain the integrity of the elections and retain effective overall control of the process, the Commission has taken the difficult but necessary decision to postpone the National Assembly elections to Monday, April 4, 2011”.

the expectation of peaceful elections was encouraged till the begining of the preparation elections of Nigeria.

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