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Nigeria appeals for calm after elections postponed

Sunday, 17 February 2019 1:11 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 17 February 2019 1:16 AM ]

A woman checks her name in a voting list without knowing that the general elections was postponed at a polling station in Yola on February 16, 2019. (AFP)

Danjuma Abdullahi
Press TV, Abuja

Nigeria’s Electoral Commission has provided more details about the postponement of Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Meanwhile, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed for calm as the opposition called the postponement a ploy to rig the elections. Danjuma Abdullahi has more from Abuja.

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