Twenty one Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have rejected a proposal to postpone Nigeria’s general elections billed for February 14 and 28.
In a vote conducted Saturday by the INEC chairman, Attahiru Jega, after he met with political parties and the civil society, 21 RECs said the elections should continue as planned while 16 others voted in support of a reschedule.
Nigeria has 37 RECs, each for a state and the Federal Capital, Abuja.
The outcome of the vote came as Nigerians await INEC’s decision on whether the elections are moved or not.
Civil Society leaders said Mr. Jega had told them at their meeting that the commission was under pressure to postpone the polls after all security agencies, including the military and the police, warned that they will only support polls held at least six weeks after the current dates.
Jibrin Ibrahim, a senior fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, in Abuja, who was at the meeting, said Mr. Jega told the meeting that security operatives told INEC that they were commencing a six weeks special operations against Boko Haram insurgents in the north eastern corridors of the country and would rather not be distracted by the elections.
Mr. Jega announced that the security forces also said the operations are due to commence on February 14, the date INEC had planned for the presidential and federal legislative elections.
Earlier, 17 political parties out of the total 28 voted in support of an extension.
The opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, has rejected any plan to postpone the election saying such calls are sponsored by President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling party to stave their imminent defeat at the polls.
It is not clear what the commission’s eventual decision would be with the latest voting pattern by the RECs.
Mr. Jega is expected to brief the media any moment from now.

All their evil plans against febuhari 14 would nt work

majority carries the vote,foolish security operatives witheir clueless CinC,them no remember say dem go fight bokoharam since na now wey we wan do election all of them suddenly realise that they are ready to fight bokoharam. Let them go and fight the boko boys while them give us gun to protect our votes and election.
Foolish military that has been fighting bokoharam for six years now,so in in six weeks dem go win the war.
Fayose and co don rig their own,Gej suddenly realises than nigerian are not like ekiti citizens.
#CHANGE is inevitable

Oh! LORD take charge

Oh LORD! save the innocent Nigerians from the hands of wicked & evil leaders

Nigerian SHALL survive this moment

its a pity

What you couldn't do in 6 years you want to suddenly to it in 6 weeks.

Nigerians you made the greatest mistake of your lives for voting "The clueless one" in 2011. Be ready to face tougher times now, brace yourselves for the worst, you asked for it. So you get it.

How much is US dollar now? N215 black market.

Una doh o!