Whose agenda is Jega carrying out? I have repeatedly said that Prof Jega can not be trusted in this election. He has clearly demonstrated bias in many occasions. He tried some funny tricks to favour Buhari in 2011 by first printing a run off ballot papers between Jonathan and Buhari before printing the main election ballot papers. In Anambra state guber election, Jega openly admitted that the election which was convincingly won by APGA was laced with irregularities. But he was quick to defend the Osun state resident electoral commissioner whose complicity and culpability during the Osun guber election was well established. Presently there is crisis in INEC among its senior officers. It has been established that there is a division among INEC senior officials over Jegas handling of this election process. First it was the creation of additional polling units where Jega clearly favoured north and created over 22,000 additional polling units and left south with little above 9,000. It took the intervention of INEC commissioners from southern Nigeria to compel Jega to cancel that exercise. Here we are, Jega has done the worst. Information reaching APGA interactive Forum indicates that there is cold war in INEC between Jega and INEC commissioners from south east and south south. The commissioners are kicking against the pattern of distribution of PVCs across the country. The aggrieved commissioners are accusing Jega of changing the rules in distributing the PVCs in the north. Available information indicates that INEC took PVCs to the north and handed them over to emirs and village heads to distribute while in the south one must go to INEC LGA office to pick it. It was this manipulation that made INEC to claim that the commission has distributed about 12million PVCs in north west alone while PVCs distribution in south east is about 4million and south south about 5million. This is an attempt by Jega to justify the ugly insinuation that there are more population in the north than south. Surprisingly, INEC record shows that Borno state where Boko Haram activities have ravanged and cut its population by more than half has more PVCs collected than Abia state. Further investigation shows that INEC commissioners have called on Jega to address this injustice before the February election. Jega seems to be bent on carrying out an agenda. The revelation coming out from INEC is not healthy for this election and I advice that February election be postponed by one or two months which is still within the constitutional period of 90 days to address the anomalies. Jega should not truncate this democracy.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:42:56 +0000