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INEC Chairman: Buhari Has Shown He Is Sectional Leader - Fayose by ceecee0703(m): 10:05pm On Oct 22, 2015 |
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele
Fayose has described the
appointment of yet another
northerner, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu
as Chairman the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC)
as a vindication of his position that
“President Mohammadu Buhari is a
sectional leader, who sees himself
mainly as leader of the Hausa/Fulani,
and not that of the entire people of
Nigeria.”
The governor, who said he had
expected that the new INEC Chairman
will be chosen from one of the three
Southern geo-political zones,
especially the South Western part of
the country being the only zone yet to
produce chairman of the nation’s
electoral umpire, posited that; “Nigeria
has entered a one chance bus and it
remains to be seen who will save the
country from its sectional President.”
Reacting to the appointment of Prof
Yakubu as the new INEC chairman,
Governor Fayose said, in a statement
signed by his Special Assistant on
Public Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka that even the
Yoruba leaders who promoted and
made the Buhari’s Presidency possible
had been short-changed. The
governor asked; “Shouldn’t he have
considered someone from either
South-East, South-South or South-
West as Chairman of the Electoral
Commission now that we have a
President from the North?
"For reasons of perception, equity and
fairness, don’t we have credible
people from the Southern part of
Nigeria that can conduct credible
elections as INEC Chairman? Or do we
assume that the 2019 elections have
already been won and lost by the
appointment of this Hausa/Fulani
professor as INEC chairman? Or isn’t it
regrettable that even in 2015, it is only
in PDP controlled States that elections
are being upturned?” He said he was
worried that the three arms of
government; namely Executive,
Legislative and Judiciary were being
headed by northerners, leaving the
three zones in the Southern part of
the country with nothing.
Speaking further, Governor Fayose
said; “When Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
was the President, he never appointed
a Yoruba man as INEC chairman. Dr
Goodluck Jonathan too did not
appoint an Ijaw man as INEC
Chairman. “Former President Shehu
Shagari too did not appoint a Hausa
man like himself as Chairman of the
Federal Electoral Commission
(FEDECO). Rather, he appointed late
Justice Victor Ovie Whisky.
“During the Ibrahim Babangida and
Sani Abacha regimes, no Hausa/Fulani
man was appointed as Chairman of
the National Electoral Commission of
Nigeria and General Abdulsalami
Abubakar who established the current
INEC did not also appoint his fellow
Hausa man as chairman. “How then
can we have a President from the
North and at the same time have INEC
Chairman from the Hausa/Fulani
Northern Nigeria?
“Obviously, what is being witnessed is
more like a situation where it appears
the President is more interested in
having someone malleable to him
than serving the interest of Nigeria
and its people.” Governor Fayose,
who described the hurried
appointment of the INEC boss as a
vindication of his earlier stand that the
appointment of Mrs Amina Zakari as
INEC Acting Chairperson was illegal,
said all processes leading to the
conduct of the Kogi and Bayelsa States
governorship election must start
afresh. "It should be recalled that l
raised the alarm on the legality of
INEC under an Acting Chairman or
Chairperson as there was no
provision for INEC Acting
Chairmanship position in the
Constitution of Nigeria.
“I did say in a statement issued on
August 9, 2105 that any action taken
by INEC with Mrs Zakari as its head will
amount to illegality and I urged
President Mohammadu Buhari to
avoid plunging Nigeria into an
avoidable legal quagmire by
rescinding immediately, the illegal
appointment of Mrs Zakari as INEC
Acting Chairperson.
“However, the president chose to wait
until decisions were taken by INEC on
Kogi and Bayelsa States governorship
elections and one begins to wonder
how INEC will wriggle itself out of the
legal quagmire it has been plunged
into by the President’s refusal to heed
to the voice of reason,” the governor
said. |
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