INEC to hold presidential, legislative polls on February 14, 2015

INEC  Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday declared that the presidential and legislative  elections would take place on February 14, 2015.

The Chairman of the  Electoral body, Professor  Attahiru Jega, also on Thursday said that  all ballot boxes for the 2015 elections would be digitalised in order to make ballot box snatching impossible in polling stations and reduce election fraud by politicians.

Professor Jega said: “henceforth every polling booth would have a specialised digital number and all voting cards for that particular station would carry the digital number.

The presidential election will mainly be between the main ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressive Party,(APC)