Elections Will Hold Nationwide Even With Cash Crunch, Protests? – INEC Makes Big Revelation
Yakubu Mahmood
Despite a cash crunch and protests in some parts of the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured that the Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25 will be held nationwide.
Nigerians have been having difficulty accessing the new N200, N500, and N1,000 notes since the Central Bank of Nigeria redesigned them. With this development, there have been concerns that the general elections will be postponed or marred by technical difficulties.
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of INEC, has allayed those fears by stating that the commission is working closely with the CBN and security agencies.
“The Central Bank has assured us that we will not suffer any encumbrances in that regard, no there are no issues with respect to that,” he stated.
“On what is happening around the country – the protests – is a security matter and security issues have assured and reassured us that they will secure the environment for elections to hold peacefully nationwide. So we have no issues in that respect.”
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