Nigeria Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki calls for Election Postponement

Nigeria’s National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki, has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to consider a delay in the date for the forthcoming general elections.

Dasuki made this remark today during a talk at a London think-tank.He explained that the commission had only managed to distribute 30 million in the past year. The postponement he noted will enable the commission distribute the rest of the cards.

 “What sense does it make to vote three months early when there are 30 million cards still with INEC? That’s my position,”Dasuki said.

The INEC schedule for conducting the general elections has been a subject of controversy over the months with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) accusing the  Goodluck Jonathan administration of plotting to shift the elections to satisfy its whims. These allegations have, however, been denied on several occasions by the President’s handlers who accuse the APC of crying wolf where there is none.