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The Council of Arewa Chiefs in Agege area of Lagos has denied endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan and other Peoples Democratic Party candidates for the general elections.

Arising from the council’s meeting held at the palace of Seriki Hausawa of Agege, on Saturday, in Lagos, the chiefs led by Alhaji Sani Shuaibu, the Sardauna of Agege, said in a statement that they have unanimously expressed their unalloyed support to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

The statement read, “Alhaji Sani Kabiru, the acclaimed Seriki Hausa in Lagos, had last week announced the endorsement of President (Goodluck) Jonathan at the State House, Marina, after a meeting he had with the President.

“However, we want to tell the whole world that we are not part of the said endorsement. We rejected the endorsement. We remain committed to the victory of APC’s presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen Mohammadu Buhari (retd.) and APC candidates in Lagos State,” he said

“The Hausa community in Lagos, especially in Agege, has enjoyed tremendous support from the government of Lagos State since the past 16 years and would like such a relationship to continue.

“Since the past 16 years, we have lived peacefully and witnessed tremendous support from the government of the state. We want to leverage on this and all of us are working towards achieving continuous peace in the state.

MCMLXXVI:
Wrong. It's an EDITORIAL piece by Abraham Ogbodo, who is the Guardian Newspapers' editor.
www.mediacareerng.org/2013/03/03/ogbodo-editor-the-guardian-on-sunday/

uboma:
The 2015 election is yet to hold so stop spewing lies

Akpan107:
Itemi, get ur ppl ready to be on the street! Because Jega must surely go on leave. It's called 'compulsory leave' not if Jega like to go!

APC has fail to understand the meaning of the word ''Compulsory'' maybe, after Jega must have gone, they will understand!

Akpan107:
Nobody can sack Jega, not even the President. But he must go on leave, just like other INEC boss. It will happen and nothing anybody can do about it.

Amaechi once said that, if the Election is postponed, Nigerians will be on the street. Did it happen? No!

APC has everything to lose in this election and they will never get the Presidency nomatter how they call the President names!

fkaz:
GBAM,
UK USA, europe , Asia and all african country except CHAD and NIGER who are partner in crime with goodluck jonathan will. Will support APC parallel govt, if the need arise.

PhockPhockMan:
Jega will go, nothing, I mean nothing will happen. After you threatened armagedom if election is postponed, what did you do? Nothing.
Empty drum makes much noise.

GEJ till 2019

Noviolence2015:
When you are not constitutionally recognized? You will be treated as a state within a state. Thus you will be flushed out like your Boko haram brothers... Nuisance.

voltron:
Worthless and Wicked Northern Elders.. So you knew about this permutation and you sat back since 2014? these elitist bigots like Arewa all sat back in their over-educated ignorance while amijiris ran wild morphing into terrorists groups.. now that their very comforts and status quo is threatened,these same lazy embezzlers have started threatening. Educated Mallams - STFU Biatch

XBLadez:
I'd rather sit and watch Tellytubbies with little kids than waste my time watching Fashola disgrace himself on Tv.

Franchise21:
Speculations that President Goodluck Jonathan intends to fire the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, before the general elections, intensified Friday after the Federal Government refused to give a clear commitment on the matter.
Responding to concerns that the electoral chief would soon be mandated to proceed on a terminal leave, the Minister of Information‎, Edem Duke, gave an uncertain response, saying Mr. Jega’s exit will follow a “natural course”.
Although he re-echoed President Goodluck Jonathan’s comments last two weeks that he had not informed anyone of any plans to sack the INEC boos, Mr. Duke said that did not imply that when it is time for Mr. Jega “to naturally exit his office, then the natural course of things will not take place”.
“I think all of that is in the terrain of the Presidency and he has spoken. I have nothing to add to that,” he added.
On Thursday, members of the Nigerian Senate belonging to the All Progressives Congress, APC, had accused Mr. Jonathan of plotting to ask Mr. Jega to proceed on pre-retirement leave next week.

They promised to resist the alleged plot.

Mr. Duke criticised the APC for fuelling speculations about Mr. Jega’s removal.
“I will also like to say once on that issue. I recall that for several weeks now, people keep threatening the President on the shift in the date of the poll. You begin to wonder that parties have a couple of extra weeks in order to reinvigorate their campaigns and try to reach as many voters as possible,” he said.
“Rather than do that, you begin to identify imaginary pockets of unlikely developments and then focus your attention on them and then when you lose election, you begin to complain.”

Northern elders reject move to sack Jega

Meanwhile, the Northern Elders Forum has warned the presidency to jettison any plot to remove Mr. Jega head of the general elections, saying such move will be a ​”​recipe for disaster​”​.
The spokesperson for the group, Ango Abdullahi, said “any attempt at this last minute by this government or its agency to remove Jega is a clear message that this govern­ment is determined to rig an election in which they see Jega as an impediment simply because he thinks that the commission must follow the rules for a free and fair and credible elec­tion”.
Sacking “Jega at this material time will be a recipe for disaster”, Mr. Abdullahi warned at a press conference Friday.
He said the excuse given for postponement of the general elections, earlier scheduled for February 14 and 28, to March 28 and April 11, was “flimsy, clumsy and indefensible”.
Speaking against background of security concern cited for the poll shift, he said, “the NEF viewed it as unacceptable because only a small frac­tion of the security per­sonnel in the country are directly engaged in the battle against insurgency within the north east en­clave of the country.
“We also know that even in countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan , Sri Lanka and more recently Afghanistan where full scale wars were still rag­ing when they decided that election could still be held and indeed were held.”
Stating further, he accused the “the ruling elite” of plot to scuttle the elections and ‎ultimately Nigeria’s democracy.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/177667-sacking-jega-recipe-for-disaster-northern-elders.html