An insight has been provided into the debate at the National Council of State meeting of February 5, 2015 where the issue of whether or not the general election should be postponed was extensively discussed.

Writing in his column in THISDAY on Thursday, celebrated journalist and former presidential adviser Olusegun Adeniyi, revealed that contrary to media reports, the council did not direct Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to go ahead with the polls.

He gave an account of the positions of President Goodluck Jonathan and Muhamamdu Buhari, the respective presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC), on the postponement. Adeniyi, who served the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as special adviser on media and publicity, also gave details of the contributions of Ibrahim Babangida, former military president, as well as Babatunde Fashola, governor of Lagos state, and Liyel Imoke, governor of Cross River state.

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