The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), has called on President Goodluck
Jonathan and the National Assembly to immediately sack the Chairman of
the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Atahiru
Jega, for alleged plot to destabilize Nigeria.
IYC, in a statement
issued by its spokesman, Eric Omare, in Warri on Friday, described
INEC’s creation of additional polling units, which gives more than
21,000 to the north and less than 9,000 to the south, as a ploy to
increase northern political advantage to the detriment of the South. It alleged that INEC chairman plans to sabotage the chances of President Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election.
The
statement said: “The proposal by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to create additional polling units in which Northern
Nigeria is allocated more than 21,000, while Southern Nigeria is
allocated just slightly above 8, 000 is a well thought out political
coup to perpetually give Northern Nigeria a political advantage over
Southern Nigeria in national elections with the 2015 elections in mind
and to deliberately cause instability in the country ahead of the 2015
elections.
“It
is common knowledge that in Nigeria, the more polling units that is
allocated to a particular area automatically results in more voting
population whether the population exist or not. “The case of the
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with less voting population having more
polling units than the whole of South East is a clear case in point.
Also, is Professor Jega telling Nigerians that the North West has more
or equal voting population with the whole of Southern Nigeria?
“Furthermore,
the arrogant posture of Prof. Jega in responding to the call for his
resignation by the leaders of Southern Nigeria clearly shows that he is
carrying out an orchestrated agenda by vested interest in the North to
destabilise the country and the Jonathan administration ahead of the
2015 elections.
This obviously is an act of misconduct and violation
of the oath of office Prof. Jega took as INEC Chairman. Therefore,
before Prof. Jega would fully nurture his destabilisation tendencies,
the IYC call on President Jonathan and the Senate to remove Professor
Jega from office as INEC Chairman for gross misconduct in compliance
with section 157 of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended)”, it added.
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