The announcement by INEC that the 2015 general elections has been postponed by over a month has met very serious and harsh criticisms from opposition parties and their supporters.

Let me say that I support the decision by the INEC to postpone for a few reasons

1. Too many voters are yet to collect their PVC’s. It is highly unfair that over 20 million people wouldn’t have been allowed to vote because they were unable to collect their PVCs.
2. Staffs meant to conduct the elections haven’t been trained by the INEC. The youth corpers INEC intend to use for conducting the elections just started their training today. They wouldn’t have been properly trained if INEC went ahead to conduct the elections on the 14th.
3. Our security personnel admitted that they aren’t ready to safeguard voters if the elections were conducted on the 14th.

These are very solid reasons and anybody who says otherwise isn’t true to himself. INEC failed to plan properly for the elections and this is the outcome.

The postponement has its advantages and disadvantages as well. The biggest beneficiary of the postponement is no one else than our humble president himself. The tides were against him by a number of reasons. Most important are

- Majority of the voters in the south where he’s banking on getting the most votes are yet to collect their pvc’s

- The APC were ahead of the game and were certain of causing a major disappointment towards his re-election bid.

The biggest loser is Buhari, who was slightly ahead of GEJ and was quite sure of being victorious on February 14. He now has to contend with a myriad of problems and setbacks, from the court cases to more PVC holders in the south east and south south.

Other losers are gubernatorial contestants. Theirs was postponed by over 6 weeks. They have spent so much on campaigning and they were hoping everything will end this February. They now have no other option but find more cash and refill their campaign accounts for the next 7 weeks. This will amount to billions of naira in some states and these guys should be broke by now.

Any other thoughts on who are losers and winners because of the postponement?

Just Incase.

WHAT HAS INEC BEEN DOING?
Did JEGA not know all this?
If a big chunk of the Nigerian population has not collected their PVCs, there is nothing free and fair about the elections.
Should we blame GEJ for this?
No.

OBJ must reap what he has sown!
GEJ till 2015!!!!!

Is good they way it was shifted. Somepeople are yet to get their PVC and the tension of this election is much. As for me I somuch love it that way but atimes I wonder why APC members are somuch making noise about this issue. GEJ till 2019.

AmucheJane:
Is good they way it was shifted. Somepeople are yet to get their PVC and the tension of this election is much. As for me I somuch love it that way but atimes I wonder why APC members are somuch making noise about this issue. GEJ till 2019.

APC members are angry because they're no longer in control. They now have to map out a new strategy