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#Nigeria: No plan to delay the election. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#Nigeria: No plan to delay the election. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://menafn.com/1105441710/Nigeria-Will-Not-Postpone-Presidential-Vote-Says-Election-Chief

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Nigeria, deadline London, the head of Nigeria's electoral commission,

0:46.0

said it will not postpone next month's presidential vote despite worries over widespread insecurity,

0:53.6

including attacks on election officials, Mahmoud Yakubu, speaking at London's Chatham House think

1:00.7

tag, said the independent National Electrical Commission was well prepared to facilitate voting in

1:07.2

Africa's most popular state despite challenges. The quote, the commission is not contemplating,

1:13.8

let alone planning to postpone the 2023 general election. We are going ahead to conduct the election

1:20.0

as scheduled. I welcome my colleague and friend, Gregor Coppoli, editor and publisher of Defense

1:26.3

and Foreign Affairs, who has kept me well informed of this election February, in February of this year,

1:33.0

because what we're looking at is the most significant election, democratic election in Africa,

1:39.2

this calendar year, and also a state that has good reason to believe it will become one of the

1:45.3

biggest countries in the world in population. It certainly enjoys the riches of natural resources,

1:52.2

but over these last years, if not decades, it's been ripped by violence, by influence peddling,

1:59.6

by the general misbehavior of its leadership. And the question always is, is this more of the

2:05.6

same or is there a change in weather? Gregor, a very good evening to you. I was unaware that there

2:11.9

were threats at this scale. How do you measure this representation by the head of the Electro

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