The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), today called on Professor Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to resign immediately, and for last Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State to be cancelled.
The group said the INEC chairman betrayed the Anambra electorate and Nigerians in general by conducting a sham , with serious implications for 2015.
“We are making this call on the fact that the eminent Professor Jega from available records bungled the single Anambra State gubernatorial election; and this being the case, what [is] the guarantee that he will not bungle the 2015 general elections?” it asked in a statement signed by CNPP National Publicity Secretary, Osita Okechukwu.
‘We were perplexed that up till this Monday morning when the gross irregularity were clearly made public by the Returning Officer, Professor James Okuoke resulting in the declaration of the result as inconclusive and cancellation of 113,113 votes; Professor Jega behaving like a hired hand on a television interview Sunday afternoon had sort to defend INEC and its failed exercise,” the spokesman said.
Okechukwu noted that the INEC chairman was nervously harping on 65 Polling Units in Obosi Electoral Ward, even when by his own admission the INEC Electoral Officer whom he claimed had been arrested had messed up the electoral process in the entire Idemili North LGA with 306 Polling Units and total registered voters of about 174,000; claiming that he could not cancel the total election because of one Electoral Officer’s malfeasance.
Saharareporters
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