Amid initial vow to carry out 2023 general elections as already scheduled, there is now the likelihood that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may extend the 2023 General Elections Timetable.
This is especially as the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Friday said that the commission was considering the request by political parties to extend the timetable for the elections.
All the political parties had recently requested INEC to extend the timetable for the exercise but the electoral body refused and insisted the election would be held as already fixed.
However, Yakubu, at the INEC headquarters in Abuja on Friday, during a meeting with leaders of political parties under the auspices of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) for the adjustment of the timetable for the forthcoming polls, said the commission waa considering the request.
At the meeting, IPAC Chairman, Sani Yabagi, made the request known again to INEC on behalf of other leaders and representatives of political parties at the meeting.
Yabagi, who also serves as the National Chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), said that adjusting the timetable of the election became necessary as a result of the current timetable being tight for the political parties.
Among political parties represented at the meeting are the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), among others.