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IYC Wants INEC Chairman Jega Sacked

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SAN FRANCISCO, September 14, (THEWILL) – The Ijaw youth organisation, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan as well as the Senate to sack the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) , Prof. Attahiru Jega, over alleged gross misconduct in compliance with section 157 of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended).

The group spoke against the backdrop of moves by the INEC’s chairman to create additional 30,000 polling units in which Northern Nigerian would be allocated more than 21,000 polling units while Southern Nigeria is to be allocated only 8,000 polling units.

According to the Ijaw radical youth group, the moves by the INEC chairman was a “political coup against the Southern Nigeria and a ploy to destabilise the country ahead of 2015,” adding that in the past few months, Jega had carried out alleged acts of misconduct that have violated his oath of office as INEC Chairman.

The statement signed by IYC spokesman, Eric Omare, read in part; “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 IYC having studied the arguments against the lopsided allocation of polling units between the South and North and the feeble explanation offered by the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Jega, has come to the inescapable conclusion that there is no justification for the so much disparity in the number of additional polling units between the South and North other than a hidden agenda to politically empower Northern Nigeria.

“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.

“The conduct of Prof. Jega is reminiscent of the attitude of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi, who became an agent of destabilisation in his last days in office.

“Prof. Jega has no justification to defend this patently biased and potentially dangerous proposal to politically empower the North to the detriment of the South, if not to destabilise the country.”

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