The postponement was unexpected as the chairman of INEC, Yakubu Mahmud, had assured and reassured every stakeholder that INEC was ready and prepared for the elections. INEC even released its calendar for the elections over a year ago and the hype around the elections had been built to a crescendo. If the movement of the election materials had started on time, there was no reason informing the citing of logistic as a major challenge. INEC would have alerted the nation at least five days to the event so that costs would be reduced. With the charged political atmosphere in the country, it was extremely naïve that security was not reinforced around INEC offices or that firefighters were far off from INEC.

Source: Punch February 17, 2019 23:09 UTC