No basis to postpone election –INEC

The commission further added that there was no communication from the presidency to postpone the election over complaints of the PVCs distribution.
The chief press secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, said:
“We have not received any official or unofficial communication to that effect. From the point of our operation, the commission has not seen any good basis to postpone the election.”
Kayode, however, pointed out that information available to the commission with regards to what transpired at the London meeting was contrary to what the NSA was quoted to have said.
He stated that the claims that 30 million uncollected PVCs were not true, noting that there has been accelerated distribution and collection of cards since the decentralisation of the process.
According to him, rough estimates indicate that the collection process has surpassed 70 percent since the decentralisation of the distribution of the cards at the ward level.
Kayode said: “Where are the 30 million cards that have not been collected? Statistics are cold; they are not flighty. By the commission’s rough estimation, even though we have not collected the raw data from the states, we have cases of over 26,000 PVCs collected in states in a space of three days, and this could be the trend across the country.
“I can assure you that the percentage is much higher than 70 percent.
What we do is that immediately the cards come in, we move them to the states. We just moved four million cards recently.”
He assured that before the end of the month most of the PVCs wouldhave been distributed and collected.