The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have caved in to pressure by opposition parties to allow them continue with their campaign while awaiting the day of the rescheduled polls.
The INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu said on Saturday that the campaigns had been closed.
Yakubu spoke at the stakeholders meeting where he briefed the party leaders and Nigerians on the reasons for the rescheduling of the Presidential and national assembly polls as well s the governorship and state houses of assembly elections earlier slated for February 16 and march 2.
The polls now come up on February 23 and March 9 respectively.
The lifting of the ban was announced by Festus Okoye, as INEC commissioner and chairman, Committee on Information and voter education.
In a statement released by Okoye, campaigns will continue again till Thursday, February 21.
Sources close to the INEC confirmed that campaigns are to resume as there was pressure on the Commission to approve that.