The candidate of Labour Party in the last presidential election, Peter Obi, has applauded the federal government’s decision to allow the incoming government conduct general census.
Recall that the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari approved the postponement of the 2023 Population and Housing Census after after a meeting with some members of the Federal Executive Council and the National Population Commission on Friday night.
Obi believed conducting one requires proper planning and diligence to ensure the sanctity of the results.
“FGN’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. National Census is a critical development and nation-building tool.
“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. 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,” he wrote.
2023 census was initially scheduled to hold on between 3 and 7th of May this year.
