“Gaskiya.net will find it difficult to believe in such claims, but given the way issues relating to this election are playing out and in the interest of Nigeria’s peace and stability—which has direct implication for the entire African continent—the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan needs to do a quick re-assessment of the negative reactions trailing the postponement and take urgent and credible steps to re-assure all Nigerians and the international community that there will be no interference in the work of INEC, that Nigeria’s security forces will remain absolutely neutral, and that that a stable environment will be created for the polls.”

[b]Over the weekend, domestic and foreign media reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) had announced the postponement of the country’s general elections that had been scheduled for 14 and 21 February 2015. The sole reason given was insecurity in Nigeria’s north-east, a tacit reference to the insurgency unleashed by the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'Awati Wal-Jihad ("People Committed to the Prophet's Teachings for Propagation and Jihad" also known as Boko Haram. Reportedly, this insurgent group controls 17 local council areas in that part of Nigeria (out of 774 local council areas in the whole country) and going ahead with the elections would deny citizens in those places of voting in the said elections.
At the Council of State meeting just days before the announcement by INEC, the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had called for a postponement. That Council comprises of current and former Heads of State / Presidents of Nigeria, former Chief Justices of the Federation and current State Governors. According to the reportage of its proceedings by most domestic media, only President Goodluck Jonathan and the Service Chiefs (Chief of Defence Staff, heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force) had called for a postponement. Most former Presidents asked that the elections proceed as scheduled, while Governors from the two main parties—PDP and the All Progressive Congress (APC) were naturally divided. Some smaller political parties—who do not control any tier of government in the country—had also been divided on the issue.
It is instructive to note that according to the same reportage, the Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, had insisted on proceeding with the elections, though he admitted that the situation in the north east was not conducive. He was said to have been contradicted by military chiefs who openly said they could not guarantee security in those areas. Gaskiya.net will return to the assertion of these chief in a moment.
Not a few Nigerians are already getting seriously worried with the way issues relating to these elections are playing out, especially the way its postponement has been arrived at. For a start, they argue that several weeks before, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) had called for a postponement of the elections, in far away London, and the barrage of criticisms that greeted that call resulted in the INEC responding that it was going ahead with the polls as planned. That they would be re-scheduled as Dasuki had called for, according to them, suggests that it was contrived.
On the resistance by Nigeria’s military chiefs to elections being held as planned on grounds of insecurity, such resistance flies in the face of their own very claims that several towns taken by the insurgents had been liberated in on-going joint operations with Chadian forces. What is immediately interesting here too is that these same military chiefs, through the spokesperson at Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters, had painted a rosy picture of on-going joint operations to rout the insurgents. Critics would wonder therefore if, given the ‘success’ of those operations, the same military could now insist it can not guarantee security in areas it has supposedly ‘liberated.’ In effect, given the role it has played in the postponement of these elections, the neutrality of the leadership of Nigeria’s own security forces will be under critical and intense spotlight within and beyond the country and it becomes necessary. Needless to add that, being the professionals that they are, Nigeria’s military must take steps to quickly re-affirm its neutrality now.

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