ACF urges Nigerians to have faith in INEC

By : Abdulganiyu Alabi, Kaduna

Date: 17 February 2019 5:08am WAT

[FILES] A woman checks her name in voting lists at the State INEC Independent Electoral Comission Office in Jimeta on February 16, 2019. Nigeria's electoral watchdog postponed presidential and parliamentary elections for one week, just hours before polls were due to open. The two main political parties swiftly condemned the move and accused each other of orchestrating the delay as a way of manipulating the vote. Luis TATO / AFP

A woman checks her name in voting lists at the State INEC Independent Electoral Comission Office in Jimeta on February 16, 2019. Nigeria’s electoral watchdog postponed presidential and parliamentary elections for one week, just hours before polls were due to open. The two main political parties swiftly condemned the move and accused each other of orchestrating the delay as a way of manipulating the vote. Luis TATO / AFP

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has urged Nigerians to keep faith with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The forum, in a statement by its National Publicity secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim Biu, said though elections shift should have been done earlier to reduce cost and inconveniences for all the parties concerned, Nigerians should restrain themselves from any act of lawlessness capable of jeopardising the democratic process of free and fair election in the country.