Meet The People That Failed Given Tasks, Forced INEC To Shift Election On D-DAY!

Charles Oyelesi

The Independent Electoral Commission has attributed the one week shift of the 2019 general election issues with logistics.

The implication of this is that those charged with the responsibility to oversee logistics for the much-anticipated election failed woefully in their task.

The individuals are listed as made known by INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu when he formally announced the membership of the Logistics Committee in Abuja on Thursday, January 3, 2019.

Declaring that ‘’ “The Commission is aware that the conduct of a General Elections is the biggest and most complex logistics operation a nation can undertake.” Mahmood listed unveiled members of the Committee On Electoral Logistics as

National Commissioner AVM Ahmed Tijjani Mu’azu (rtd) – Chairman
National Commissioner Engr. Abubakar Nahuche – Member
National Commissioner Malam Mohammed Haruna – Member
Central Bank of Nigeria – Member
Nigeria Customs Service – Member
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria – Member
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) – Member
Nigeria Immigration Service – Member
The Nigeria Police Force – Member
Nigeria Security & Civil Defence Corps – Member
The Department of State Services – Member
Nigerian Army – Member
Nigerian Navy – Member
Nigerian Air Force – Member
Director, Electoral Operations Department, INEC – Member
Director, Estate Works & Transport, INEC – Member
Director, Procurement INEC – Member
Director Stores – Member/Secretary

The Logistics Committee was announced alongside the Committee on Collation Centre.

The AVM Ahmed Tijjani Mu’azu (rtd) led committee which failed to deliver on given tasks – as scheduled – was scheduled to ensure that Sensitive and non-sensitive materials procured by the Commission were delivered to almost 200,000 locations nationwide, ranging from the polling units to the various ward, local government, state and the national collation centres for the 1,558 constituencies into which elections will be conducted.

The 2019 election was scheduled to kick off today – Saturday, February 16, 2019 – but has been shifted by a week via an official announcement by INEC just minutes to 3.a.m.