Kazem Gbadamosi, former Chairman, Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Ibadan branch, says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has the legal right to postpone elections.
Gbadamosi, in an interview with NAN in Ibadan, said the electoral Act empowered INEC to postpone elections if it envisaged any difficulty with materials or security that would affect the conduct of a free, fair and credible elections.
He said if INEC suspected that there would be violence and breakdown of law and order, it would in the good interest of Nigeria to postpone polls
Another Ibadan based legal practitioner, Adams Oladimeji, said this was not the first time INEC would be postponing elections in Nigeria as it happened in 2015 under President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.