■ Insists Jega must go

…Police, soldiers descend on protesters in Aba, Anambra, Abakaliki

FROM CHIDI NNADI (ENUGU), EMMANUEL UZOR, DOM EKPU­NOBI (ONITSHA), JEFF AMECHI AGBODO (ABAKALIKI), GEORGE ONYEJIUWA (OWERRI), OKEY SAMPSON (ABA), DAVID ON­WUCHEKWA (NNEWI), GEOFFREY ANYANWU (AWKA), CHUKS ONUOHA (UMUAHIA) AND PAUL OSUYI (ASABA)

Ten days after their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike called on the Chairman of Independent Nation­al Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, to quit office, thou­sands of members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday took to the streets in the five states of the South- East to press home their demand.

The protesting MASSOB members, some of them dressed in the Navy blue Bi­afra uniform with the rising sun barge, car­ried placards with inscriptions: “Jega must go”, “We will disrupt the elections if Jega is conducting it”, “Sack Jega now,” as they went round the cities continuously shout­ing, “Jega must go.”

The protest staged in all the three sena­torial zones of the five states and Asaba, Delat State capital, was disrupted in Aba, Abia State, by soldiers who used horse­whips on the MASSOB members, while the police in Anambra State and Abakaliki, Ebonyi State arrested some of them.

As early as 10:00a.m, the MASSOB members, who arrived in Enugu in over 50 buses, assembled at Edinburg Road from where they marched through the Old Park and round the Coal City, shouting, “Jega must go”, vowing to disrupt the forthcom­ing elections if he does not quit.

As they marched round Enugu, the group refused to talk with journalists, but their leader, Uwazuruike, was called over the phone and he said: “We are organising the protest against Jega because he is bi­ased and cannot conduct credible elections for Nigerians.

“We know that he has sympathy for APC and if allowed to conduct the elections, he will definitely favour the party and when that happens, there will be crisis and peo­ple will die.

“The crisis can even lead to war and we don’t want bloodshed. We are not hiding the fact that we are supporting Jonathan be­cause of the honour he accorded our leader, Dim Odumegwu-Ojukwu. We are sure that if the election is free and fair, Jonathan will win; so, Jega who has showed his sympa­thy for APC should not be allowed to con­duct the elections.”

In Onitsha, MASSOB members, num­bering over 3,000, disrupted human and vehicular movements in Awka New Mar­ket, Old Market and Court roads as well as other roads and streets of the commer­cial nerve centre, as they insisted that Jega must leave office before March 28 presi­dential election.

The presence of the protesters drew the attention of the Onitsha Police Area Com­mander, Mr Philip Ezekiel and the DPO in charge of Inland Town Police Station, Mr. Cosmas Eze, who came out to ensure there was no breakdown of law and order.

They also carried placards with the in­scriptions: “Jega must go,” “With Prof. Jega no election in Nigeria”, “INEC under Jega is fraud”,” Jega is working to return power to the North”, “Jega deliberately wanted to disenfranchise Ndigbo”, “Con­tinued marginalization of Ndigbo is unac­ceptable to MASSOB”.

Addressing newsmen, the leader of MASSOB in Anambra North Senatorial District, Mazi Chris Mocha, said their rea­son for demanding Jega’s removal or res­ignation was that of his alleged nocturnal meeting with his kinsmen in the North.

“All Prof. Jega’s activities have been tar­geted against the Igbo race, and MASSOB is a movement fighting for Igbo emanci­pation, so we have decided that we will no longer allow such ill-treatment against Ndigbo to continue, hence the call for his removal.

“Prof. Jega held series of meetings with his Muslim brothers in Saudi Arabia over the conduct of the general elections and how to return power by hook or crook to the North, without considering the feelings of other Nigerians,” he alleged
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These ones are ready to do anything for money. Jega will conduct the election and the poor people of their region will benefit from the Buhari goverment.

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If dem like make dem march from naija to isreal Jega must conduct dis election and card reader must be use.

I think it will make so much sense if MASSOB goes ahead to disrupt election in Igboland. because we from Niger Delta will go ahead voting for both GEJ and Buhari.

We don't want biased Jega. Jega out out out out!!!

CONFUSION.

And the fools will be shot on the street of Aba.