Abuja, Jan. 10, 2023, The federal government on Tuesday said the 2023 election would hold as scheduled in spite of fears of insecurity reports across the country.
Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, said this in Abuja on Tuesday at the President Muhammadu Buhari’s scorecard series from 2015-2023.
The minister gave this assurance against the backdrop of fears expressed by INEC on Monday that the 2023 elections might be postponed due to general insecurity in the country.
INEC had said that over 41 attacks had been carried out against its offices across 14 states since the 2019 general election, with the South-East recording 13 attacks.
The attacks, which started in Abia on May 9, 2021, spread to Enugu and Ebonyi, with three incidents each, Imo, with two attacks and Anambra and Abia with one each and in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom states.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who spoke at the validation of election security training resources in Abuja, said that the forthcoming election faced serious threat of cancellation if the insecurity across the country failed to improve. (GBN)
