Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has hailed the decision of the Federal Government to postpone the 2023 Population and Housing Census, scheduled for 3-7 May 2023, to a date to be determined by the incoming Administration.
The former Governor of Anambra State said the decision to postpone the exercise “is a propitious and welcome development,” stressing that “National Census is a critical development and nation-building tool.”
According to him, “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 concluded that what should be of uppermost concern should be “that when eventually the census is conducted, it will serve as a confidence-building measure instead of being fraught with the usual controversy.”
