Breaking News: INEC Bows To Pressure, Presidential Election now holds 28th March

Reports reaching us from reliable sources indicate that the Independent National Electoral Commission has extended the date for both the presidential elections and the governorship elections.

The presidential election has been rescheduled from the earlier date of February 14, 2015 to a new date March 28, 2015.

The governorship election will hold two weeks later, on the 11th of April, 2015.

The polity has been heated with series of threats and possible chaos should elections go ahead; and before INEC decided to bow down to pressure from above, a new report came out on Saturday, 7th of February, 2015, highlighting the fact that the National Security Adviser to the presidency will not guarantee security to INEC officials should they go ahead with the elections.

Earlier in the week, an exclusive report from dailytimes.com indicated that the presidency was going to coherce INEC, using every means within its powers, to shift elections by six weeks.

In the same manner, we brought you the story of an INEC official admitting to Reuters News Agency that INEC may be forced to shift the general elections.

The Council of State, which met to rectify the postponement of elections on Thursday, 5th of February, 2015, however endorsed INEC to exercise its mandate of conducting the 2015 general elections.

With this latest twist in the Nigerian polity, it remains to be seen how the opposition reacts to this new development.

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