Mr Buhari had earlier directed the postponement of the census initially scheduled for 3 to 7 May.
The governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, who has often criticised President Muhammadu Buhari, has commended the president for postponing the 2023 census.
A statement issued on Saturday by Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s minister of Information and Culture, said the president postponed the exercise after meeting with some members of the Federal Executive Council and the Chairman of the National Population Commission at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday.
Mr Ortom explained that conducting the census would amount to “injustice and deprivation of millions of Nigerians” who have been displaced from their ancestral homes by terrorists. “I want to say that the federal government should suspend the issue of census because it looks like the proposed census is coming with an agenda.
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