Peter Obi Backs Postponement Of Census Exercise

By Daniel Dafe

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi had said that the Federal Government’s “decision to postpone the 2023 Population and Housing Census, scheduled for 3-7 May 2023, to a date to be determined by the incoming Administration is a propitious and welcome development,” adding that “National Census is a critical development and nation-building tool.”

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In a statement on Saturday after the announcement, Obi, added that “Even though Nigeria is long overdue for a census, conducting one requires proper planning and diligence to ensure the sanctity of the results; the efficacy of the data gathered therefrom, as well as their utility in driving national development goals, our living standards and growing national housing deficits.”

He continued: ‘It is hoped that when eventually the census is conducted, it will serve as confidence-building measures instead of being fraught with the usual controversy.”