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[b]Jonathan, PDP may force Jega to resign – Buhari
By Akinwunmi King Senior Reporter, Lagos


Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, alerted on Monday that President Goodluck Jonathan and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may force Attahitu Jega to resign as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman.

He warned of surreptitious moves in the days ahead to embark on a media campaign to force Jega to resign so that an INEC Commissioner friendly with the PDP can be appointed as acting INEC Chairman.

A statement issued by Buhari’s Spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, alleged the exertion of pressure and influence on Jega by Jonathan and the PDP, “reminiscent of the same shameful approach the late President Umaru Yar’Adua adopted with the then Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ekiti State, Ayoka Adebayo, as we can all remember.”

Odumakin said in any civilised clime, a candidate or party that is participating in an election would keep a distance from the Electoral Commission to avoid any appearance of undue influence or conflict of interest.

“This is why most, if not all, Electoral Commissions throughout the world are supposed to be independent of the various arms of government.

“Regrettably, this is not the case in Nigeria as our so called Independent National Electoral Commission has a track record of being independent more in the breach than in observance.

“That the pattern of abuse by the executive arm and the ruling party on the INEC can continue even in the middle of a critical period of general elections is mind-boggling and totally unacceptable.

“In so doing, Jonathan (like his recent predecessors) is laying the foundation for the forthcoming elections to be anything but free, fair, and credible as Nigerians and the world at large would want it to be.”

Odumakin added that the Buhari camp had believed that the National Assembly (NASS) election was aborted and postponed in the middle of voting because of non availability of voting materials as announced by Jega.

“However, we now have reasons to believe that covert as well as overt pressures are being exerted by Jonathan, the PDP, and their agents because of their vested interests in manipulating the outcome of the elections.

“If we had doubts about the widely circulated rumour that senior officers in the legal and operations departments of the INEC deliberately engineered the delay and non availability of the critical materials as an act of sabotage to discredit Jega, such surreptitious or covert moves now pale into relative insignificance in light of the emergency meeting of the National Security Council chaired by Jonathan with Jega and other senior officials of the INEC after the postponed elections.”

The statement referred to a newspaper report on Monday that Vice President Namadi Sambo, National Security Adviser, and the Ministers of Defence and Police Affairs and other Service Chiefs were also present at the meeting where accusing fingers were pointed at Jega for the problems that led to the postponement.

It said Jega was chastised for turning down the offer for the military to be involved in the election logistics, and that the government decided to constitute a task force comprising the military and INEC officials to handle all the logistics.

Buhari added that pressure was mounted on Jega not to combine the NASS and Presidential elections on April 9 as demanded by a majority of the opposition parties.

“He was also pressurised to change the modified Open Secret Ballot system that was adopted by the INEC, such that there should be no accreditation of all eligible voters prior to voting.

“The pressures were so strong that Jega succumbed and agreed not to combine the NASS and Presidential elections as has since been publicly announced by him.

“He, however, refused to constitute a task force and change the accreditation procedure as demanded and offered to resign instead.

“Naturally, we and most other Nigerians are disappointed by the postponement of the elections midstream but we strongly believe that Jega made the right call to postpone them rather than continuing with flawed elections.

“So we see no reason for Jonathan and the National Security Council meeting in the first place. The alarm bells and ominous signs to be deduced are as follows:

• “Why should the National Security Council be meeting with the INEC at this stage without other political parties being present?

• “Why embark on duress and undue influence for the rules to be changed in the middle of the game? Why should Jonathan and PDP’s preference for the NASS election and the Presidential election not to be combined be imposed on all the other major parties?

• “Why should Jonathan and the PDP be clamouring for the involvement of the military in the conduct of the elections?

• “Will Jega eventually succumb, as did Ayoka Adebayo of Ekiti State, who initially resisted, but later bowed to pressure from the PDP?”

Buhari urged Jonathan and the PDP to stop interfering with the ballot process in the interest of free, fair and credible elections Jonathan promised Nigerians and also in the interest of peace and stability.

He demanded a probe of the role played by INEC Operations Director, Nuru Yakubu, in the bungled vote last Saturday and asked Jega to clear the air on the rumour that two sets of result sheets with the same serial numbers were printed.

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Beaf please comment

we are just held to ransom

@ Recoome

pple are demanding 2 hold more dolla

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You that did economics, what would make the demand for dollar go up by $2billion in a month, if oil price goes up, we get more money too and we can use that more money for the more demand for dollar as you said, at the rate of your calculation after we empty our reserve what happens. That is why I said I fear for the future. No wonder your country eurobond was shun by foreign investor. Goodluck is dumb period and you know that.

@ efisher

People like you and beaf should be sent to live in the moon of dreams and your Goodluck till we finish rebuilding Nigeria. I can see your dream"Emerging Giant of Africa" working only if we get the like of you out

@ Beaf

Can anyone imagine Nollywood endorsing Buhari? That would be like the joke of the year, if he was president, he would probably get them shot for no reason anyway!

yes it will be a joke for any serious president to be hanging out with nollywood ashawos and claim he is too busy to attend debates.

You come up here to post stupidness, i have been reading all your post , I just hope your face is as ugly as your post and PDP. I don't think you more of a southerner than me. your are just messed up old gay who have been disturbing the peace of nairaland for so long.

Goodluck is an opportunist, he never thought of being a governor talk less of a president . I am Igbo but we dont want him because he is a zombie, after winning , he will not be able to get off the likes of OBJ, Anenih and Danjuma

A country that people are just clown. If the Goodluck was so serious to get support from nigerians, he wouldnt get all this jokers musicians and nollywood prostitues for his support , while there was debate going on he was there doing grand finale.
He could not face intellectuals at the debate but instead paying this clowns that can not think for themselves to do an advert for him. we are messed

With a country with no Values Like Nigeria , If all the nollywood stars and footballers and police, lawyers are bribe, they will support Goodluck Jonathan. I Am just upset this morning after coming to find out that Godwill Akpabio just gave Mobile police in Akwa Ibom state 100 million Naira and 140 cars for the election. Nigeria is messed up, I give up

PDP is a failure and those that support PDP will see the fall of Nigeria very soon. I keep on saying that we should stand up against this dictatorships.After spending all this Billions, story don starts.We do not need this government

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Anybody that vote PDP is mad, so it takes more than a year to even sort out a contract , what happens to you removing the bureaucracy

We just have to wait and see, there is always a fact in Sahara reporter and don't forget people are free to post in Sahara reporter.

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Why can't we just rest with this 419, everything get beginning and an end, so now it is jobs scam they are up to.a letter like this I would believe should come from the companies HR. I have never applied for a job in Nigeria, I have been shortlisted and now they want my CV. Who be the fool.

@poster
what do you mean by "Judge threatens"

It was totally out of order to arrest him in the first place. Nigerian government should go and do their home work

@kabukabu50
you just so brain washed calling someone a bufoon.Check your head. Posting military pictures.and youthis the ceo of facebook if not being Jew could made it to where he is , then you do that as well as USA is so good

@kabukabu50
 I think you so daft and brain washed,I thought you will post the picture KKK or the guy that caused the LA roit being beaten by the police and then all the police cleared.
 The Facebook guy that you posted , do you thing if he was not a jewish, he will get to where he is. Stop being blindfolded nigga. You sholud drop out of school as well and archive all that because USA is a level ground.
  USA is so great that fools like Bush roled you for 8 years . get a grip just survive in there.As I said before America is great but at the expense of others and people like you.

@Bluetooth
you are 100% correct

@Luap

It may be harder for some, but anyone can do what they want or atleast have the right to pursue what they want.  We also have a great immigration policies that allow the best from other countries to come here and help.  We help a lot of other countries as well

I can see the way you helped removed Kwame Nkuruma, Help install Mobutu of Congo,Help bring Osama to afghan to fight the russians, Help Cuba becos they were close to Russia. America is blessed don.t get me wrong but on the expense of other and that is my point.

@dayokanu I see a lot of denials here.

I wonder why the American visa is still the most sought document in most countries

People like atiku,Uzor Kalu,Ibori or Odili  don't get denied visa to america for your information,as long as you have millions or billions of stolen money , you don't even have to go to the embassy for Visa.That is some of the reason america is so blessed. Or you give them oil fields like OBJ, you will be in the good books

In a very short words, America is so blessed becos they work had to make sure every other country is poor or look up to them. Why do we have trade wars,why have America interest in so many countries, but at the end of the day they do well for its Citizens.
 Every one will have their differences on this issue. I would rather someone still my country's money rather than cause situations like wars in a corrupt manner to make money and then send its citizens to die for no reason.

I always view the swift network IP cameras from US, after reading this article, I went to their website to view the cameras and it responded faster than before and the pictures from the camera are refreshing very quick, so I might believe they are hooked up to main one

ObamaUS

DORA should go and sit down somewhere, What does she know about business?Instead of her to tell the useless govt headed by BADLUCK JUDASTHAN on how to improve infrastructure and provide the enabling environment,she's here suffering from diarrhoea of the mouth.Does she know the cost of diesel that these companies incur daily?Why didn't MTEL that is owned by the govt thrive?

Please note the post mention about Infrastructure sharing which will reduce cost of running a cell site. She might not know about business but I think she has advisers

@ China Kobo

I have alot of respect for Dora when she was in NAFDAC, that's why i am writing this piece. i assume she is acting blindly on the issue at hand. She wants operators to reduce cost. I wonder if she knows that about 10,000 cell sites in nigeria run on Diesel Generators 24hrs of the day. now lets do a little analysis. MTN has more than 4000 cell sites in Nigeria, each cell sites consumes an average of 100 litres of diesel daily. when you check yearly consumption of diesel in 4000 cell sites, it amounts to 146 million litres of diesel yearly. The contract sum for the supply of diesel to these sites is about N170. per litre, for the 146 million litres, the cost is approx 25 billion naira. This is just a rough cost analysis for diesel. We have not checked the cost for generator maintenance and this analysis is just for MTN. Now tell me, if PHCN is working properly, I know that MTN will not consume more than N5 billion worth of power. This will leave them with N20 billion. Then we can talk about Low call tarrif.

You did all the calculations on Diesel but you did not tell us how much MTN ends in total after their bills and paying for their loans in a year. Correct me if I am wrong, MTN must be raking in up to or over 20 Billion naira a month.

Now FFa will look for another avenue to survive

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@verycute,
   

Rememebr, US started with church and till today, they trust in God. We are not wiser than them in that area. They will come back to God like russia

I think you should see more to what the poster is trying to imply on this article, I believe fully in God and religion. Sometimes it is good to have this kind of post.
  I disagree fully that america started with church, how come most of the stuff related to America are all Masonic from the statue of liberty to the signs of the American dollar, to the designs of washington streets, They all have to do with freemason.
   There is an incident in PH when a local government chairman donated of 20million naira of stolen funds to his local church and he was seen as a hero, tell me where is the morals there. We have to think for ourselves deeper , not having churches all over the place that has lost it values.

mIKEL IS JUST IN TO CAUSE FOUL AND PLAY THE BALL BACKWARDWS

OUR IS THE MOST STUPID COACH IN THIS COMPETITION, OBASI HAS NOT BEEN PLAYING WELL SINCE FIRST HALF .HE SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT IN ODEMINGWE  FOR OBASI FOR THIS GAME TO FLOW WELL. i HAD ALWAYS SAID THAT WE NEED UCHE AND NSOFOR TO START GAME

@Mudley313
     
                        And all of you attacking TEXASGUY1,
  I wish you could do researches yourself on all that Texasguy1 is saying, Untill todays people stop being brainwashed by all this nonsence, there will be no peace.
   Mudley313,  you studied in the USA . Go do a lot of research on Bush, Obama, kessinger, Bilderberg, Illuminati, New world order . The thing is that this people control world media and so they would not even let it come out.
    The first question I always ask is, go  find out who first convinced Bin laden to go to afghanitan, This man is a product of the same system and we are here shouting our head out.
    It is just a shame that we as human being both Mulsim and other get brainwashed to do things we should not do , buut it is part of Life.