– Would six-week delay help? –
Election monitors, including from the West African bloc ECOWAS and the European Union, are already on the ground and the international community has urged Nigeria to hold the election.
Kerry had earlier suggested a link between peaceful and timely voting and further US help for the counter-insurgency.
Dimolo said the delay would help with the logistics of distributing voters cards and could possibly cool heads in the process.
But she said postponing could also prompt a violent reaction from angered opposition supporters, who are hoping to inflict a defeat on the PDP for the first time in 16 years.
In 2011, some 1,000 people were killed in post-poll rioting and there have been fears of a repeat.
Ryan Cummings, chief Africa analyst at Red24 risk consultants, said there was no guarantee that a planned new regional force would make significant gains against Boko Haram before the end of March.
“To dislodge Boko Haram from all of these areas in a period of six weeks would be an unprecedented feat,” he said.
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