The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has released the timetable for next year's election, stating that the next presidential and National Assembly election, will be staged on February 14, 2015.
The electoral body, also announced that governorship and elections for state assemblies, would be conducted on February 28, 2015.
The gubernatorial polls in Ekiti and Osun, where fresh elections will be held, because of the expiration of the tenure of the current Governors, have also been scheduled for June 21 and August 9 respectively.
Meanwhile campaigns are to commence by march this year while the selling of forms would begin on the 1st of April this year also.
INEC faces a major test and unprecedented challenge in conducting next year’s general elections. The recent upheavals in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as a dramatic rise in the rhetoric of supporters and opponents of President Goodluck Jonathan have provoked speculations that a rigged election could precipitate a level of post-poll violence that has not been witnessed in Nigeria in a long time.
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