Also, prominent leaders from the South-West zone across the various registered political parties, under the umbrella of “Iyipade Agba Yoruba,” in the early hours of Wednesday, rose from a meeting in Abuja and kicked against the delineation exercise carried out by INEC.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja, leaders of the Southern Assembly, Chief Edwin Clark (South-South), coordinating chairman; former Vice President Alex Ekwueme, co-chair (South East) and Senator Femi Okurounmu, leader of the South-West delegation, said Jega had lost his credibility as the chairman of the electoral body.
According to Clark, “Jega has failed woefully in his decrepit mission. May we hastily remind him that he has lost his credibility, if there was indeed any and he has lost the trust, confidence and respect of Nigerians.”
He held that Jega had overstayed his welcome as the INEC boss, having shown tendencies for “ethnic bigotry, partisan parochialism and primordial chauvinism.”
The Assembly said the INEC boss could not exculpate himself from being a proponent of ethnic agenda, adding that he (Jega) was allegedly recruited to perfect the ploy of some persons to truncate the nation’s nascent democracy.
“Professor Jega decided not to equilibrate but to marginalise the entire Southern Nigeria by arbitrarily and capriciously allocating 21,615 polling units to the North, as against 8,412 polling units to Southern Nigeria.
“Creating a phantom 30,000 polling units and whimsically allocating them to favour the North is the height of insult to the people of Southern Nigeria,” the Assembly noted.
The Southern Assembly further said Jega had to convince Nigerians of his degree of altruism and broad mindedness by taking what it described as “inconsiderate decision” that defies global best practices.
The leaders called on President Goodluck Jonathan to reorganise the composition and structure of INEC, to provide platform for free and fair elections.
Source: Tribune
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