Nigeria elections: Security chief urges vote delay

Sambo Dasuki said it was safer to wait for the poll

Nigeria's national security adviser has urged the electoral commission to delay next month's elections to allow more time for voter card distribution.

The polls are the first in Nigeria to require voters to have biometric cards.
Nigeria, wracked by a violent uprising by Islamists Boko Haram, is scheduled to hold the election on 14 February.
The security chief, Sambo Dasuki, also said that neighbouring Chad was sending troops to help fight the militants, who control many towns and villages.
And he criticised "cowards" within Nigeria's armed forces for hampering the campaign against the insurgents.

Millions of voters still do not have their biometric ID cards

"We have people who use every excuse in this world not to fight," he told an audience at the Chatham House think-tank in London, adding "there is no high-level conspiracy within the army not to end the insurgency".
Several soldiers have complained about not being given the weapons they need to fight Boko Haram.