Rivers elections: INEC insists elections will not be postponed

INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Voter Education and Publicity, Festus Okoye, said that INEC would not postpone and has no intention whatsoever of postponing any strands of elections as the condition or conditions for the postponement of any election does not exist in Rivers State.

The electoral body promised that it will conduct on schedule elections slated for the February 16 and March 2.

The electoral body also said that elections would be contested only by political parties and candidates whose names were published by the commission on the January 17, 2019 and those whose names would be published on January 31, 2019.

The main opposition party had said that such suggestion by INEC was distasteful and only points to a collusion with the APC in its plot to stalemate electoral processes in some strategic states to pave the way to postpone elections in such states and use compromised security forces to effect massive rigging, as was the case in the 2018 Ekiti and Osun States governorship elections.