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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by damrmd02(f): 7:50am On Jun 30, 2015
May Almight bless your reteriement,Mr.jege we learn frm you how to mantein silence when a dog is barking.

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Elcapo(m): 7:50am On Jun 30, 2015
Respect sir!

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by ipreach: 7:50am On Jun 30, 2015
He has written his name with gold in nigerian election/ political scheme by removing the incumbent,GEJ















Land for sale











PLEASE READ MY SIGNATURE AND DISCOVER IMPORTANT THINGS THERE
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by plainmirror(m): 7:51am On Jun 30, 2015
If I were to describe him churchically, I will term him an USHER who ushered in a long awaited CHANGE.
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by xreal: 7:51am On Jun 30, 2015
Good job sir.

Nigerians appreciate you.

remain calm, no matter the the Orubebeism around .

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by ITbomb(m): 7:51am On Jun 30, 2015
In Orubaba voice, "you have failed us, please go abeg"
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by bobchigar(m): 7:52am On Jun 30, 2015
Shortly Tanoids will bombard this forum condemning him of favourism because they failed during the last elections meanwhile they commended him when formal elections favoured them.

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Nobody: 7:53am On Jun 30, 2015
speak2emmalex:
We will always remember you for your legacy


Your party lost the election when they lost the Middle Belt, and South West....thanks to the incompetence of local PDP leaders there.
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by ghanaman5050: 7:53am On Jun 30, 2015
Mr card reader
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by scentmarlc(m): 7:53am On Jun 30, 2015
mistabiola:
As expected
exactly. Its expected of him else........




Kudos to jega,

The slayer of orubebegringrin

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Chigorkizz(m): 7:54am On Jun 30, 2015
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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Nazeeboy(m): 7:55am On Jun 30, 2015
Pls Jega don't go! Orubebe is still around ooo. He still need to be taught some lessons.

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by lumzybo: 7:55am On Jun 30, 2015
sugarvallly:


J for Jega

Modified wink

Copa wee oooo....
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by free2ryhme: 7:56am On Jun 30, 2015
papoose999:
AFTER five years in the saddle as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega bows out today. Not a few would regard his tenure as remarkable; indeed it was, as the outcome of the 2015 general election was largely a true reflection of the will of the electorate. For the first time in our electoral annals, a ruling party – the Peoples Democratic Party – was ousted from power by the opposition All Progressives Congress. Truly, in the pantheon of public service heroes, Jega has an assured place.

The radical swop in the country’s political evolution from this year’s polls came on the heels of previous parodies. Votes were simply allocated to candidates in the 1999, 2003 and 2007 elections, with that of 2007 grabbing the notorious distinction of the biggest electoral fraud globally, from international election observers.

Jega first captured public imagination in the early 1990s during the military regime of the dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, when he was the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The union fought that fiendish regime to a standstill as Jega resisted all overtures to compromise the struggle. Besides, his membership of the Justice Muhammadu Uwais Electoral Reform Committee that produced a well acclaimed report further opened his eyes to the challenges bedevilling Nigeria’s electoral process.

It was from this milieu that Jega emerged on June 30, 2010 as INEC chairman. A calm and calculating left-of-the-centre intellectual, Jega is also a professor of political science and former vice-chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, who came to that office with a rich pedigree in public service. He was mindful of his reputation at all times.

Although he conducted the 2011 general election, which lacked a patina of credibility in some respects, its rough edges, rather than weigh him down, provided him a vista for reforms, which climaxed in the use of the Permanent Voter Card and Card Reader machines in the March–April 2015 polls. These innovations were hitherto alien to our electoral process. As a game-changer, the card reader improved the integrity of the last elections, with its mechanism to authenticate a voter and match his/her fingerprints with the code on the chip of a card.

However, despite the watershed these two electoral devices inaugurated in Nigeria’s electoral contest, the 2015 general election still had the ills of those before it in terms of poor general preparations. This was evident in the shambolic distribution of PVCs, which began barely three months to the commencement of elections.

INEC offered no reason for that shoddiness. A task it had four years to perform ought not to have been mired in such tackiness. The aberration was almost exploited by anti-democratic elements to sabotage the entire election as they relied on insecurity in the North-East region to demand an adjustment in the election timetable. Thus, the presidential and National Assembly elections earlier billed for February 14 were shifted to March 28, and those of governorship and state assembly to April 11.

“The period of the extension has offered us an opportunity to further perfect the electoral process for the delivery of free, fair, credible and peaceful elections to the satisfaction of the yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians,” Jega had said.

As the D-Day came, it was still the same old tune: logistics nightmare emblazoned in lack of vehicles to convey polling officials to their units; late arrival of electoral materials; shortage of materials and poorly-trained ad hoc staff. In some areas, accreditation of voters could not begin by 1 pm, whereas the official time for voting to start was 1.30 pm.

But for the generators volunteered by some public-spirited voters, to illuminate polling centres in some cases where voting went far into the night, the situation would have been irredeemable for the electoral body. In fact, the shortage of materials forced INEC to postpone the House of Representatives election in the entire Jigawa State and two federal constituencies of Ethiope-East and Ethiope-West, in Delta State.

Now, with Jega gone, with almost all the electoral commissioners, leaving INEC heavily denuded of its statutory personnel, rejuvenating the body is a duty the Muhammadu Buhari government should not take lightly. As a matter of fact, we should not be blinkered by INEC’s outing in 2015; there is still room for improvement. If anything, the last election should serve as a stepping stone to a slew of electoral reforms and institutional consolidation required before the 2019 general election.

Indeed, strengthening our democracy will come to naught if electoral reforms are not deepened. This is why the use of card reader and PVCs should be included in the Electoral Act. Such irreducible minimum guarantee of integrity will put chronic election riggers, who fought tenaciously against the adoption of these devices, in check.

Who succeeds Jega is a critical matter. To avoid the problems of the past when some INEC chairs and State Resident Electoral Commissioners could not rise above partisanship in doing their jobs, or were paid agents of the ruling political party, a broad-based approach that recommends their appointments to public scrutiny has become imperative. Integrity or character of the appointees is of essence here.

For making Nigeria to join the rest of the democratic world by ensuring that the 2015 polls were credible, Attahiru Jega deserves our gratitude.



link: www.punchng.com/editorials/inec-as-jega-bows-out-today/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

cc lalasticlala


Jega a man of honour

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Nobody: 7:56am On Jun 30, 2015
JOB WELL DONE Atleast GEJ dey hus n one DULLARD is busy taking pics!
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by abbeyoye2001(m): 7:56am On Jun 30, 2015
Good man
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Chigorkizz(m): 7:56am On Jun 30, 2015
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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by mistabiola: 7:56am On Jun 30, 2015
scentmarlc:
exactly. Its expected of him else........




Kudos to jega,

The slayer of orubebegringrin


Lol!!! wink cheesy .
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by absoluteSuccess: 7:57am On Jun 30, 2015
End of an era.
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by drkay(m): 7:57am On Jun 30, 2015
Best wishes in your future endeavour professor Atahiru Jega.
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by adioolayi(m): 7:58am On Jun 30, 2015
Prof Jega..I wish you the very best in your future endeavors. God bless you
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Nobody: 7:58am On Jun 30, 2015
I've learnt to jegalise any form of orubebeism. Wish him best of luck as he bows out graciously.

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by surveycash(m): 8:01am On Jun 30, 2015
"Mr Orubebe, you are a former Minister of the Federal Republic .You are a statesman in your own right. You should be careful about what you say or what allegations or accusations you make. Certainly you should be careful about your public conduct

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Codyt(m): 8:02am On Jun 30, 2015
mikeansy:
Congrats for pulling off the smartest political fraud in Nigeria's history
Please change your perception. Please embrace togetherness. let there be sense of patriotism among us. cmon!! ! angry
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Nobody: 8:10am On Jun 30, 2015
mikeansy:
Congrats for pulling off the smartest political fraud in Nigeria's history

Fraud?

PDP lost the election because of the messes up of many of its local leaders....as seen in

1.)State governors not paying salaries(Benue's Susy.....who did not pay salaries for as long as six months!).

2.State governors interfering with party primaries (Plateau is a good example).

PDP also lost the election when they lost large chunks of the middle belt they should not have lost......Benue again...which even pro-APC Punch in its pre-election analysis gave to PDP....was lost to APC. And PDP really had no business losing Plateau and Kaduna and even Kogi! PDP also lost the SW....the same region they won in 2011.

Face it....PDP would have won if they had done well in the middle belt....especially if they won Kogi, Benue,Kwara and Plateau.

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Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Akanaz(m): 8:12am On Jun 30, 2015
Your dynamic contribution to nigeria and africa democracy shall not be forgotten.
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by guardsman: 8:16am On Jun 30, 2015
Jega along wit millions of nigerians ar d real heroes of our democracy. We all saw how GEJ & d PDP tried to stop d use of card readers & to remove Jega, a man of integrity using d OPC & MASSOB so dat they could do their usual wuruwuru & magomago.
When d history of nigeria is written, Jega's name will be written in gold.

Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by youngay: 8:17am On Jun 30, 2015
grin
speak2emmalex:
Posterity will remember you for your legacy..
bad guy grin
speak2emmalex:
Posterity will remember you for your legacy..
bad guy
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by Kendumazy(m): 8:19am On Jun 30, 2015
We'll miss all his electoral comedies.. All the very best in ur future endeavours sir.
Re: INEC: As Jega Bows Out Today by totorimi: 8:20am On Jun 30, 2015
Jega ia a traitor and all traitors will get their rewards someday and somehow. He should go and collect his settlement. Good riddance what we need in Nigeria are loyalist not conformist like this man.

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