The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties has called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to resign over the shabby conduct of the governorship election in Anambra State.
The spokesman of the CNPP, Osita Okechukwu, made the call on Monday.
Jega has come under fire for the handling of the Anambra State governorship election by INEC.
The electoral commission on Monday morning declared the election inconclusive.
Okoechukwu said on Monday: “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 are the guarantees that he will not bungle the 2015 general elections?
“We were perplexed that up till this Monday morning when the gross irregularities 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 sought to defend INEC and its failed exercise.
“Jega to our consternation was nervously harping on only 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 cannot cancel the total election because of one Electoral Officer’s malfeasance.
“The first valid question to our eminent professor is, is the 113,113 cancelled votes from only Idemili North, where no election took place and where a postponed election was supposedly conducted at Obosi and later extended to Abatete and Nkpor Ward 2, without official notification?
“Secondly, is it with good conscience that an election was fixed on a Sunday in a predominantly Christian community?
“The third valid question to the eminent professor is can we trust the fate of Nigerians in an incapable, inept and compromised hand to conduct the more sensitive and delicate 2015 general elections?
“In sum, we call for the total cancellation of the Anambra State Governorship Election. In fact the Anambra State Governorship has in no uncertain exposed Professor Jega’s palpable ineptitude, gross incapacity, utter negligence and near compromise in managing elections; therefore Professor Jega should resign forthwith.”
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