No official reason was given though, but a source in the campaign council told our correspondent that the party earlier did not consider that “Monday is a dreaded period” for anybody to go out in some areas of the South-East.
Daily News Report observed that the ruling party had shifted it's campaign in the region from Monday as a result of the mandatory sit-at-home order imposed by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB).
The source said, “If you drive out anyhow in the South-East on a Monday, it is at owner’s risk. The South-East is not a place where you can just veer into and gather people in the name of politics.
“So, we have to make that necessary amendment in dates, not necessarily because of possible confrontation, but to make people willing to troop out for the rallies.”