The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday announced the postponement of the election fixed for Saturday, September 10, to September 28 after a security alert by the Department of State Services and Police.
Onaiwu told journalists in Benin on Monday that a further shift in the date of poll was necessary because September 28 was the day students taking the General Certificate of Education across the country would write Physics.
He said that October 1 was the “earliest possible date” for the election.
Onaiwu said that the shift would afford eligible voters among the students to participate in the election.
According to him, education is number one pillar in APGA’s manifesto, and the authorities must be wary of threats from some of the students that they will sue INEC if they are prevented from voting in the election.
On the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party that the election was postponed because it was obvious that the party would win, the APGA candidate said that such claim was a mere presumption.
He criticised the PDP for insisting that the election should have been allowed to go on.
He said, “Are we going to wait for what happened in Rivers? PDP is crying because they know what we don’t know.
“Since security agencies said the election was not possible and INEC has shifted it, everybody should abide,” he said.
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