…Says Jega’s INEC too lousy to guarantee free, fair and credible poll

From: ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna

Second Republic member of the House of Representatives and Russian trained Medical Doctor, Junaid Mohammed, has declared that blood would flow on the streets of Nigeria, should President Jonathan insist on running for the presidency in 2015.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Sunday Sun from his base in Kano, the former lawmaker, who chaired the House Committee on International Economic Relations and Socialist Bloc, argued that it was wrong for anyone to suggest that the clamour for power to return to the North in 2015, was coming from the North alone, insisting that there abound more agitators in the South-west, in this regard, than there are in the North, adding that “I can tell you today that there are more agitators in the South-west, for power shift to the North, than there are in the North. And they are doing this because they believe in justice and fairness. If you have faith in a system, you must ensure the system runs fairly and justly too. Apart from the issue of fairness and justice, the South-west knows that it has a lot to lose, should it allow the country to plunge into any political upheaval. Lagos alone, accounts for 45 percent of our national economy, and my friend, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is aware of that notorious fact. So the South-west cannot fold its hands and watch one irresponsible and incompetent leader lead the country into an avoidable political violence. Common sense tells the South-west that it would not be in their interest for this country to convulse again.”
He also spoke on the recent clampdown by EFCC on some governors and other issues of national interest.


The closest President Goodluck Jonathan has come to saying whether or not he would run in 2015 was to say recently that he was under pressure to run. Should he run?

First and foremost, I do not believe he should run. He should not run, whether he is under pressure or not. He is his own man, therefore, he should be responsible enough to take that decision, and not to bore us with the irresponsible statement of saying he is under pressure. He should stop playing with the destiny of this country. He is humble enough to know the consequences of his action, should he insist on running. But let me warn that he should not do anything that would plunge the country into avoidable anarchy.
Quote me, if Jonathan insists on running, there will be bloodshed and those who feel short-changed may take the warpath and the country may not be the same again. His running will amount to taking about 85 million northerners for a ride and that is half of the country’s total population. So, there will be bloodshed. But we don’t pray to get to that level, before his ethnic and tribal advisers pull him back.

In case these advisers are unable to pull him back, what are the options available to Nigerians?

The option is to pile up pressure, to ensure that he does not take the country for a ride. Nigerians must be prepared not to allow him force any political upheavals or violence on us, because that will be the consequence, if he fails to listen to the voice of reason. At any rate, on the three criteria globally used to measure preference for a leader, this man has got none of them. They are competence, integrity and acceptability. On competence, you journalists know this better. President Jonathan is incompetent. He has got no integrity, because he is also corrupt and irresponsible. On acceptability, apart from his few ethnic and tribal advisers, who are urging him to contest, Jonathan today is not acceptable to the generality of Nigerians. So on all these three counts, he is nowhere, so on what basis is he going to run? Answer me, I am asking? So like I said from the onset, in order to avoid political upheavals and violence that his action would cause this country, it will be in the best interest of Nigeria for him not to run. And history will surely be kind on him, should he decide to take that path of honour.

Since you are saying he should not run, is the opposition, as we have today, a viable alternative?

I want to be careful, with my choice of words. What do you mean by viable alternative? Was Jonathan a viable alternative before 2011 election? Or was late Yar’Adua a viable alternative before 2007? It’s after you have tested someone that you know whether the person is a viable alternative or not. It’s you journalists that use those words. I am a politician, and I have been in it for about 40 years now, therefore, I won’t succumb to that choice of words.
Having said that, if there is going to be a free and credible election, I don’t mind if Jonathan runs, because I know he would be roundly rejected by Nigerians. But the last thing you want to guarantee in a country where the police have suddenly become an arm of PDP’s militia is a free and credible election. You don’t win election by using the bullets. So we are in a Catch 22 situation.
With what we have seen so far under Jega, INEC cannot guarantee a free and credible election. INEC is very corrupt.

Where do these leave the North which has been clamouring for power to return to it in 2015?

It’s wrong to say it’s only the North that has been clamouring for power to return to the region in 2015. I can tell you today that there are more agitators in the South-west, for power shift to the North, than there are in the North. And they are doing this because they believe in justice and fairness. If you have faith in a system, you must ensure the system runs fairly and justly too. Apart from the issue of fairness and justice, the South-west knows that it has a lot to lose, should it allow the country to be plunge into any political upheaval. Lagos alone accounts for 45 percent of our national economy, and my friend, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is aware of that notorious fact. So the South-west cannot fold its hands and watch one irresponsible and incompetent leader lead the country into an avoidable political violence. Common sense tells the South-west that it would not be in their interest for this country to convulse again.

Come to think of it, Obasanjo was unfairly and undemocratically imposed on us by a few Generals from the North, using state resources to fund the PDP in 1998. I am not a member of the PDP, but I was in Jos (at the convention that produced Obasanjo, as the presidential candidate), and I knew Obasanjo never won the primary; it was manipulated in his favour. But we thought Ekwueme was decent enough to challenge what transpired. Instead, he was doing ‘paddy paddy’ with Obasanjo, until recently when I read the interview he granted one Hausa newspaper. Now, because of the way Obasanjo came in, when he was leaving too, he gave Nigerians, a mentally and physically sick Yar’Adua. And after Yar’Adua, we now have this nincompoop as president. I gave this background because there was no justification for having Obasanjo in the first instance. It could have been anybody from the South, thrown up through a credible process, not by a few Army Generals.
So, as I was saying, if Jonathan insists on running, there will be violence in Nigeria if he wins, because he can’t win a free, fair and credible election. I don’t speak for the North, but I believe what the north wants is a competitive process, where the game of number comes to play and the North has the numbers. If there is going to be a credible election, Nigerians will not bother, because for me and for most Nigerians, the process is more important than the result. But these present people cannot guarantee that.

Look at Anambra. Is that the kind of a thing we want to see in 2015? A situation where PDP which is the party at the centre, is giving thumbs up to a process that not only disenfranchised more than half of the registered voters, but also disenfranchised its own candidate and his entire family. Is that fair? This is why I said from the beginning that Jega’s lousy INEC, with highly partisan people in the country, with the police, as PDP militia cannot give us a free, fair and credible election where Jonathan is a candidate. So, to avoid chaos, Jonathan should just take a bow and leave in the interest of the country.

On a final note, what do you make of the recent clampdown by the EFCC on some governors, especially from the North?

First and foremost, I have not seen the details. So, I will not comment until I see the details. But there is a pattern emerging, in that only governors from the North, especially those who are opposed to President Jonathan’s 2015 ambition, are the ones being hounded. Whether there is a credible allegation for hounding them is another thing. Now, the immediate consequence of this for the EFCC is that it will discredit and politicise its affairs. Once you politicise an institution such as the EFCC, you are bastardizing the criminal justice system.
Now, the EFCC is headed by a northerner. So the slant being given to it is that these people are being hounded by their fellow northerner. But I want the chairman of the EFCC to know that one day, he would be removed.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/2015-therell-bloodshed-jonathan-runs-warns-junaid-mohammed/

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Rubbish! GEJ is winning 2015 without a Gunshot.

Junaid is threatening violence as Asari Dokuboh has been doing since GEJ came to power.

There is nothing Junaid said that hasn't been said by Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokuboh.

sincerenigerian: Junaid is threatening violence as Asari Dokuboh has been doing since GEJ came to power.

There is nothing Junaid said that hasn't been said by Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokuboh.

Are you just waking from your "hang over" since the defection of 5 of the G-7 governors?

From what this m0r0n said i understand that there is going to be violent civil strife and furry in the region of amala and ewedu people (Yoruba south west) and the cattle brain goro chewing people (the core north). How i wish 2015 will be tomorrow.

Gworo filled illitrate,always backward in nature.......fools dey want to impose dia backwardness in evry cronny nd corner of dis miserable country........old and umcircumcised idiots from dey north always etreme in nature like dia islam.ic religion........ Dey re d problem we have in dis country..........always tryin to divide south so dat dey can take south as slave porthole.........no GEJ no nigeria 2015

Kai, make this 2015 come sharp sharp let's see what this idiots gonna do. So if GEJ a Nigerian with the right to run for presidency runs for the office there will be blood huh. And when this northern people talk about power shift to the north for justice and fairness it gets me very angry because these silly people from the north has ruled and damaged this country for so many years. I wonder who in his right sense will ever clamor for a northern presidency, I rather vote for a yoruoba man to be a governor in igboland than vote for a northern to be president after so many years of misrule by those people. They should just stop making noise on the pages of newspaper because we kept quiet on this boko haram menace sponsored by the north doesn't mean we will let them act as they like, let 2015 come and let them mess up then we will redefine the status of this country.

What's wrong with these people sef? It is his right constitutional right to vote and be voted for as long as he has not exhausted the "2 terms" so their threats is just an act of treason and they should be arrested for such madness.

Silly politicians who dont know anything but to seek attention with silly comments and hoping this will make them known

Jonathan please contest. I am on my knees. Contest for my sake. I just want to see what these fuckkas would do.
I cant wait for 2015.

Here we go again. Yet another threat!

I think GEJ has the right to run for presidency as a Nigerian citizen only that the current electoral system is warped such that the electorates that should do the deciding appears inconsequential and helpless in the whole equation.

For me, Nigeria of 21st century needs someone that can fix it irrespective of ethnicity or religion and I don't see GEJ as fitting in that role.

Are we not tired of repeating the same mistake(s) again and again!

Orlando Owoh:
Are you just waking from your "hang over" since the defection of 5 of the G-7 governors?

my first victim

B4 then ss/se/mb,r 100% ready,so u need shout cos we r more than ready[color=#990000][/color]

Let the heaven fall, earth shall contain it!


GEJ till 2019

Omexonomy: From what this m0r0n said i understand that there is going to be violent civil strife and furry in the region of amala and ewedu people (Yoruba south west) and the cattle brain goro chewing people (the core north). How i wish 2015 will be tomorrow.

read ur post again and rate how foolish u sound

Any fool bilivin that trash is a moronic entity!

And u screaming amala and ewedu all the time is becoming stale. Apart fro the fact that it makes me hungry cos i imagine myself eating it with a nice big goat meat or cow leg(bokoto)..hot and fresh, i also thank God that i won't be eating a primitive kind of food where u throw a whole bunch of palm kernels into a pot of water to prepare a food called banga!

Yuk!!!!

your opinion Mr Man.

I don't know why these human-demons up North love blood so much! Jonathan shall be sworn in come 2015 and no blood will flow!

Its like allah put the brain of malu inside all northern muslims

tomakint: I don't know why these human-demons up North love blood so much! Joinathan shall be sworn in come 2015 and no blood will flow!

Sworn in Into a solitary confinement in the nation most notorious penitentiary at kirikiri quarters.

I will be happy to see the blood flow as long as it start IN NORTH and end in north like we use to see all the time or better still extend it to S.W THIS TIME AROUND.BY THE WAY WHO GIVE NORTH 85MILLION

Omexonomy: From what this m0r0n said i understand that there is going to be violent civil strife and furry in the region of amala and ewedu people (Yoruba south west) and the cattle brain goro chewing people (the core north). How i wish 2015 will be tomorrow.

Hey, have you visited the weeping centre of PDP e-warriors?

Energito: I will be happy to see the blood flow as long as it start IN NORTH and end in north like we use to see all the time or better still extend it to S.W THIS TIME AROUND.BY THE WAY WHO GIVE NORTH 85MILLION

So you will be happy to sour igbo brothers been slaughter like goat in the north or who do you think they will start with. No doubt there will post election violence if jonathan wins 2015 election in the north, but if it happen in S-W, that might lead to the end of nigeria. I still remember june 12

JONATHAN ARREST JUNAID MOHAMMED NOW!

frankyychiji: JONATHAN ARREST JUNAID MOHAMMED NOW!

Why not start the advice with Kingsley Kuku and Asari Dokubo. They've once threatened us with one form of violence or the other if GEJ is denied the chance to run.

Mtcheew....na him get him mouth,if him like make him use am pack shit....empty barrel kowai...

fkaz:

So you will be happy to sour igbo brothers been slaughter like goat in the north or who do you think they will start with. No doubt there will post election violence if jonathan wins 2015 election in the north, but if it happen in S-W, that might lead to the end of nigeria. I still remember june 12

i pray them extend it to S.W THIS TIME AROUND.

His blood will be the first to flow...

The blood of almajiris will flow in not just south but also in the north if Jonathan fail to contest and win the 2015 presidential election.

We the middle belt are waiting for core north.we will match them blood for blood.rubbish

why has he not been arrested? On secon note, why even arrest him? Arresting him would make him seem relevant

Sorry......couldn't read the whole thing! But from the little i read, i'm starting to wonder why prominent northern elite always resort to threats of bloodshed if they don't get their way on any issue. This was how Buhari talked of 'blood' during the 2011 elections as well (albeit figuratively).

Also, this 'destruction of Lagos' he talks of promises.....who are those that would be fighting on its streets when 2015 arrives and GEJ contests? Could someone explain this part better?

GEJ is well within his rights to contest come 2015; and how it works is that anyone, region or ethnicity that doesn't like him can form their own political party and go out to convince Nigerians why they should not vote for someone just b'cos of where he is from, but rather vote for them b'cos it's written in the stars that it's their turn to contest!

Finally, the talk of Yorubas saying that a northerner must take over by 2015 for justice sake, and so Lagos isn't visited with mayhem and destruction......is he having a laugh or what?

From the look of things. . . JONATHAN cannot win.
If he rigs. . . to win. . . THEN, THERE WILL BE BLOOD SHED.
No need to shed blood with LAGOS AND KADUNA STATES out of his reach.


OBJ and ANENIH don KWAYET!!!!

Mu che che che che che

I yammu loffing it!