Poll timetable: Jega continues meetings,delays announcement

The Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega,
continued hi meeting with various stakeholders
on Saturday, hours after he was expected to

have announced whether the schedule for the
general elections still subsists or the polls have
been shifted as widely speculated.
He has been having series of meetings since
morning at the commission’s headquarters in
Abuja.
Among those he met were leaders of registered
political parties.
He also met members of the civil society
groups.
He is presently meeting with Resident Electoral
Commissioners.
Our correspondent learnt that after the security
agencies gave their reports that it would be
better to shift the elections, Jega was left with
no option than to agree to a postponement of
the elections.
It was gathered that INEC would announce
March 28 and April 11, 2015 as the new dates
for the elections.

Source : punch