Nigeria’s electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained its reasons for postponing the general elections a few hours to the commencement. The general elections were scheduled to commence Saturday, February 16 with the presidential and National Assembly elections. Yakubu said the presidential and National Assembly elections have been rescheduled to hold on February 23 while the governorship and state houses of assembly elections will take place on March 9. It was not the first time that INEC would postpone a scheduled general election. Similarly, in 2011, the National Assembly elections were postponed on the day the election was to be held due to logistics failure.

Source: The Guardian February 16, 2019 06:36 UTC