NPC Reveals Why 2023 Census Was Postponed Indefinitely

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  • The NPC has revealed why the 2023 Census was postponed Indefinitely.

  • The NPC stated that the census will be conducted when the political climate is peaceful and the incoming President has been sworn in.

  • The commission urged Nigerians to dismiss misconceptions that the census was postponed due to lack of funding.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the National Population Commission, NPC has explained that the postponement of the population and housing census that was supposed to take place on May 3rd, 2023, was due to the federal government’s rationale to conduct the census when there is a state of calmness and after the inauguration of the next President.

At a press conference in Abuja on Sunday, the Director of Public Affairs Department at NPC, Dr Isiaka Yahaya, explained that holding a census is a significant occasion that demands adequate planning carried out in accordance with due process.

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This was as he urged Nigerians to dismiss misconceptions that the census was postponed due to lack of funding and preparation by the Commission.

According to him, “The census was not postponed but was rescheduled, because preparations for the census have begun already.

“Some are having the misconception that the census was postponed due to the Commission’s lack of preparation. I want to let Nigerians know that we are prepared and we have done everything that we need to do to deliver this census starting from the enumeration/demarcation, first and second pre-test and the trial census. So the issue of our preparedness is out of it.

“The responsibility for the funding of the census is that of the federal government of Nigeria and they have lived up to expectations in financing all the preparations. And I know that if there was a consensus to proceed with the census, the money will come. We should be very clear that it’s not an issue of funding.

“The federal government has the power to decide whether the census will take place or not, this is a massive exercise and the decision cannot be only for the Commission to make. Hence, the federal government has felt in its wisdom to postpone it.

“The federal government might have thought that the conduct of the census is a process. If the nation uses the data for planning then it has to be done well. If the Census is conducted by one government and another government will have the responsibility of utilising it, it won’t be a smooth synergy and transition.

“Fixing the census after the election, we felt the healing process that we hoped after the election everyone must have accepted the fate. But the rescheduling of the governorship election, limited the period available for this healing process to happen.

The federal government in its discretion must have felt to carry out the census after the inauguration of the new administration and after nerves have been calmed.”

Yahaya noted that the nation was not loosing anything by postponing the census but gained a lot by having extra time to continue preparations to have an effective data that will aid planning.

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He said, “The kind of preparations we have made for census are so effective to the extent that if we don’t conduct the census now, those infrastructures and facilities we have put in place, will make it successful. The nation is not loosing anything substantial from the census postponement.”

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