News By Nigeriapen.com.ng

The United States Embassy in Nigeria has thrown its weight behind international election observers on the postponement of last Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections in the country.

In a statement made available to New Telegraph, the U.S. Embassy said it fully supports the joint statement by the heads of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other international election observation missions on the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to shelve the polls by one week.

“We join in encouraging all Nigerians to ensure a free, fair, peaceful, and credible election by supporting INEC while it finalizes electoral preparations this week and by voting in peace together on February 23,”the statement read.

The heads of the international election observation missions and the United Nations in Nigeria had, on Saturday, appealed for calm over the sudden postponement of the general elections in Nigeria by one week due to logistic and operational challenges.

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Lalasticlala

Fake news.

The US backed the observers in demanding that INEC strictly adheres to the new date.

No one - not even the president - has openly backed INEC for the postponement of the elections. If anything, only the CUPP has commended INEC for refusing to conduct a staggered presidential election as some elements in the govt./ruling party allegedly wanted it to do.

Stop manufacturing news. Stop misinforming the public. It makes you and your cheap blog look dumb.