{"id":361325,"date":"2011-04-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/02\/postponement-shocks-jonathan\/"},"modified":"2011-04-02T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:00:00","slug":"postponement-shocks-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/postponement-shocks-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Postponement shocks Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"73\">\n<p><strong>&#8230; Says shift cast doubts on INEC&#8217;s ability to conduct credible polls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday expressed shock over the postponement of the National Assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jonathan, in a statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), in Abuja said &#8220;we are at a loss as to why there were these kinds of avoidable lapses at the last minute.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This act of negligence is capable of portraying INEC in bad light and many are likely to question its ability to conduct a credible election,&#8221; he added, but stopped short of calling on the Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega to resign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The statement reads in part: &#8220;The PDP Presidential Campaign Council views with shock and consternation the circumstances leading to the postponement of the National Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Given the enormous resources and logistic preparations that INEC claimed to have put in place, we are at a loss as to why there were these kinds of avoidable lapses at the last minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It is really interesting that this unfortunate incident happened less than 24hours after The INEC chairman Prof Attahiru Jega addressed the nation and assured us of adequate preparations for the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We sympathize with Nigerians who turned out in large numbers to exercise their civic responsibilities only to be disappointed by this announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;However, in spite of the huge setback and difficulties occasioned by this unfortunate postponement, we call on our supporters nationwide to remain steadfast and turn out<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>en mass once again to cast their votes on the new date INEC has fixed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We hope that this time around, INEC will get it&#8217;s acts right.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bd42b98ethumbnail.php_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/web3\/news-update\/32539.html\" title=\"Postponement shocks Jonathan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Postponement shocks Jonathan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; Says shift cast doubts on INEC&#8217;s ability to conduct credible polls President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday expressed shock over the postponement of the National Assembly elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Postponement shocks Jonathan - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/postponement-shocks-jonathan\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Postponement shocks Jonathan - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"... 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