Jega has been accused of having ethnic agenda with the commission’s recent creation of additional 30,000 polling units in the country.
The chairman of the commission had defended the creation, saying that the action was meant to bring the total polling units in the country to 150,000 and that it would decongest the polling units ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Jega on Wednesday said he would not resign his position but would conduct the 2015 general elections with the best intention and in national interest.
But the Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly on Wednesday disagreed:
“With the indefensible employment of proportional representation and equality as parameters, Jega decided not to equilibrate but to marginalize 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."
Leaders of the group, which included ex-Vice President, Chief Alex
Ekwueme; Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark; and Senator Femi Okurounmu, said the
action was not justifiable.
They stated this after the group’s meeting, which was held in Abuja on Wednesday.
It was also the opinion of the group that President Goodluck Jonathan should immediately re-organise the composition and the structure of INEC immediately.
According to a communique issued at the end of the group’s meeting, the southern leaders said it was wrong for Jega to have done what he did. The communique said:
They stated this after the group’s meeting, which was held in Abuja on Wednesday.
It was also the opinion of the group that President Goodluck Jonathan should immediately re-organise the composition and the structure of INEC immediately.
According to a communique issued at the end of the group’s meeting, the southern leaders said it was wrong for Jega to have done what he did. The communique said:
“Jega cannot exculpate himself from being a proponent of ethic agenda;
we are the least surprised that he has been recruited to perfect the
ploy of some persons from parts of this country to truncate our nascent
democracy.
“Whereas we have clearly argued the lack of need for any additional polling unit given the reduced number of registered voters consequent upon the Automated Fingers Identification System.
“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.”
“Whereas we have clearly argued the lack of need for any additional polling unit given the reduced number of registered voters consequent upon the Automated Fingers Identification System.
“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.”
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