ACN rejects INECs plan to shift N/Assembly polls

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has rejected the reported plan by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the forthcoming National Assembly election in nine states, including Lagos.The party said the decision, which wasto give the commission enough time to reprint defective ballot papers or take stock of the ballots used last Saturday in the affected states, was not a tenable reason.The party, in a statement issued in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, warned that failure to hold the National Assembly poll on the same day across the country was an invitation to rigging, thuggery and violence.It explained that anything short of a simultaneous holding of the National Assembly elections across the country on Saturday was not acceptable to the party.ACN suggested to INEC that instead of a fresh postponement of the National Assembly election in the nine states, as reported, the commission should go ahead and hold the governorship and state assembly elections on Saturday, April 9, get the materials needed for the National Assembly poll ready and hold it on April 16 and then the presidential election on April 26.
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