PRESS STATEMENT - 18 November 2013 RESGN JEGA! RESIGN JEGA! RESIGN FORTHWITH! Conference of Nigerian Political Parties {CNPP} calls on Professor Attahiru Jega, chairman Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} to resign forthwith for betraying the Anambra electorate and Nigerians in general by conducting a sham election, in the name of Anambra State Governorship Election. We are making this call on the fact that the eminent Professor Jega from available records bungled the single Anambra State gubernatorial election; and this being the case, what are the guarantee that he will not bungle the 2015 general elections? We were perplexed that up till this Monday morning when the gross irregularity were clearly made public by the Returning Officer, Professor James Okuoke resulting in the declaration of the result as inconclusive and cancellation of 113,113 votes; Professor Jega behaving like a hired hand on a television interview Sunday afternoon had sort to defend INEC and its failed exercise. Jega to our consternation was nervously harping on only 65 Polling Units in Obosi Electoral Ward, even when by his own admission the INEC Electoral Officer whom he claimed had been arrested had messed up the electoral process in the entire Idemili North LGA with 306 Polling Units and total registered voters of about 174,000; claiming that he cannot cancel the total election because of one Electoral Officer’s malfeasance. The first valid question to our eminent professor is, is the 113,113 cancelled votes from only Idemili North, where no election took place and where an postponed election was supposedly conducted at Obosi and later extended to Abatete and Nkpor Ward 2, without official notification? Secondly, is it with good conscience that an election was fixed on a Sunday in a predominantly Christain community? The third valid question to the eminent professor is can we trust the fate of Nigerians in an incapable, inept and compromise hand to conduct the more sensitive and delicate 2015 general elections? In sum, we call for the total cancellation of the Anambra State Governorship Election. In fact the Anambra State Governorship has in no uncertain exposed Professor Jega’s palpable ineptitude, gross incapacity, utter negligence and near compromise in managing elections; therefore Professor Jega should resign forthwith. Mr Osita Okechukwu National Publicity Secretary CNPP
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:36:53 +0000
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