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Attahiru Jega’s Replacement: The Pressure On Buhari by Bamoha(m): 2:02pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
Without prejudice to whatever willful inadequacies of every mortal, Attahiru Jega, a professor and out-going National Chairman of Nigeria’s election management body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, deserves to be commended. As he exits that office, there is going to be a fierce battle to fill the slot. And were President Muhammadu Buhari be committed to sustaining the transformative underpinning of Jega’s tenure, he would not need to look beyond the suggestions contained in this piece. More importantly, Mr. President would need to divorce himself of any shade of nepotic and prebendal inclinations in appointing a replacement for Jega so that he, too, would keep faith with the need to build on what Jega started. By Jide Ajani There are moves being made in some quarters by some prominent Emirs to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint another northerner to fill the position of the National Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Sunday Vanguard learnt that as the battle rages, Mr. President has come under considerable pressure by some traditional rulers from the North directly and, in some instances, using proxies to make a case for one of the National Commissioners. Interestingly, the Commissioner is also from the North West geo-political zone like out-going Attahiru Jega. And in what appears to be a direct unintended though predictable consequence of appointing retired civil servants and old men and women into the Commission, a 75-year old national commissioner (name withheld) was rushed to the Intensive care Unit, ITU, of an You, Akwa Ibom hospital recently while the Commission was having a retreat in that state. Sunday Vanguard was made to understand that even while in a state of coma, he was flown in an air ambulance to an Abuja-hospital. He is still in a coma. The impending exit of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Jega, and his peers of national and state Electoral Commissioners brings to a potential an expected finale a remarkable period in the history of the Commission. They are the first crop of electoral Commissioners to midwife the affairs of the Commission after the significant reforms enacted from the recommendations of the Mohammed Lawal Uwais Committee on Electoral Reforms. Professor Jega and the Commission he led conducted two elections, considered largely credible and acceptable globally. Both elections were principally between two main candidates, former President Goodluck Jonathan and incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, both men won one out of both contests, making any claims of bias to either difficult to sustain. The Commission, under Jega, can therefore be said to have creditably acquitted itself in terms......... http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/attahiru-jegas-replacement-the-pressure-on-buhari/ |
Re: Attahiru Jega’s Replacement: The Pressure On Buhari by Nobody: 2:04pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
No need for pressure.... Too many capable hands.. |
Re: Attahiru Jega’s Replacement: The Pressure On Buhari by Minet16(m): 2:07pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
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Re: Attahiru Jega’s Replacement: The Pressure On Buhari by ashson: 2:35pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
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Re: Attahiru Jega’s Replacement: The Pressure On Buhari by Nobody: 2:38pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
That post will be filled with another northerner, federal character my foot |
Re: Attahiru Jega’s Replacement: The Pressure On Buhari by aare07(m): 2:48pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
The name, Professor Attahiru Jega, A Kebbi-born, means different things to different people at different people at different point in time in walks of life. He is a lecturer ( political scientist), activist, former ASUU president and outgoing INEC boss( From JUNE 24, 2009 to JUNE 30, 2015). He was the first INEC boss to have conducted two general elections( 2011 and 2015) and capped with transfer of power from then Ruling Party( People's Democratic Party, PDP) to then and now ruling party ( All Progressive Congress, APC). His achievements in OFFICE as INEC BOSS includes: Introduction of Permanent Voters Card(PVC), provision of Carder Readers, wider voter's education for rural dwellers, among others. In addition to his achievements, he is seen as an epitome of good character, because he was able to handle and prevent national crises planning by one of the PDP chieftain and former Minister of Niger-Delta, Orubebe. Despite the former Minister's reaction and inaction, Prof. Jega gave an EPIC response to his twenty-one minutes inaction. Jega's Response as follow:::: You have made two comments. One is that you submitted a petition which I refused to accept. Secondly you claimed that there was a result released by the APC which you alleged that we gave to them or I gave to them. With regards to the first point, yesterday after we took the first batch of results in this hall and as we declared a recess until 4pm, as I was walking down back to the office, my PA came to me and said that here are some papers that Dr Bello Fadile, a representative of the PDP said that he should collect it; that I said Dr Fadile should give him those papers. I told him that I didn't tell Dr Fadile to give any papers to you. Return them to him because Dr Fadile, after we declared for recess came on to this platform. As a party agent, he is not supposed to do that and gave some documents to my PA who is writing results here. and I am sure some of the agents and some of the pressmen may have seen that and I told my PA to take back those documents to him. If he told you I told him to give you any documents, I did not. Take them back to him, Subsequently, Dr Fadile sent me a text message saying that there are petitions and that he wants to submit them. I told him we don't collect petitions on the platform when we are declaring results and then he said I should have left my office open so that they can submit those petitions in my office. I told him our secretary, the secretary to the commission is not anywhere in this hall. She is in her office and that her business is to receive communication. If they are important enough, she would bring them to me here. I have started collation. I cannot be receiving petition in this hall or in this platform. And when I replied that text message, he replied again and said Okay, he will see what he can do. I interpreted the text as he was going to take that petition or whatever document he has to the secretary of the commission. As I speak with you now, I have not received anything from the secretary to the commission. That is regards to the issue of the so called petition. Regarding results published by APC on its website, I do not give results to anybody. The results were announced formally as INEC are results declared here. And we have warned everybody to be careful and to ensure that the do not declare results which we have not officially announced. So as far as I am concerned I have not seen any results. I have not given anybody any results. So for you to even engage me on that issue I think frankly that is not fair to me. I have not seen the results. How can I speak on something that I have not seen. So please let us be careful of what we say or do so that we do not disrupt a process that has ended peacefully and in a matter of hours we would be able to finish it.". Moreso, he has promised not to seek re- appointment as INEC boss even if given the opportunity. Thus making the INEC top post vacate. On this present occasion, our political activities in Nigeria are media-driven( including Nairaland Forum). Therefore, I would like my fellow Nairalanders to make a suggestion of any credible Nigerian that will fill and consolidate achievement left behind by Prof. Jega. Written by Gafar Abiola Raji |
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