The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has no plan<\/p>\n
to postpone the Ondo State governorship election scheduled for Nov. 26.<\/p>\n
The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, disclosed
\nthis to newsmen while responding to calls by the Peoples
\nDemocratic Party (PDP) and some other registered political parties that
\nthe election should be postponed.
\nOyekanmi said that INEC had already gone far with preparations and there
\nwas no any occurrence that warranted the commission to shift the Saturday
\nelection.
\n\u201cINEC has no plan and does not intend to postpone the election.
\n\u201cPreparations for the Ondo Governorship election started since March and
\n12 out of 14 activities planned for the poll have already been carried
\nout.
\n\u201cBesides, the grounds for postponing any election are enshrined in the
\nElectoral Law and certainly, such calls for postponement is not one of the
\ngrounds.
\n\u201cThe 13th activity which is the Stakeholders\u2019 Forum will hold on Tuesday
\nin Akure, Ondo State. The Commission therefore will not postpone the
\nelection.\u201d
\nThe PDP had called on INEC to postpone the election, pending the
\ndetermination of the suit involving its candidate which was before the
\nSupreme Court.
\nA total of 20 other political parties had also called on INEC to postpone
\nthe election at a news conference in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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