{"id":30974,"date":"2014-09-07T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T16:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30974"},"modified":"2014-09-07T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T16:38:42","slug":"2015-north-hijacks-inec-ezeife-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2015-north-hijacks-inec-ezeife-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: North hijacks INEC \u2013Ezeife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #3a4149; text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2026Seeks postponement of elections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">A former Anambra State governor, Dr Chukwuemeka Eze\u00adife, has raised the alarm that the Independent National Electoral Com\u00admission (INEC) has been hijacked by the North to actualize its unhidden agenda to takeover pow\u00ader in 2015.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">He premised the plot on the proposed review of poll\u00ading units\u2019 distribution chart in favour of the North and the attendant arrogance and over\u00adflowing confidence of leading politicians in the region ahead of next year\u2019s presidential elec\u00adtions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">This is the first time in his\u00adtory that the nation\u2019s electoral umpire is headed by a North\u00aderner. Ezeife, who spoke to\u00a0<i>Sunday Sun\u00a0<\/i>via electronic means yesterday, deplored the distribution of polling units by INEC, describing it as \u201cshock\u00ading and a blatant rigging de\u00adsign with impunity\u201d. He de\u00adcried the imperial statements of Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, and his Jigawa State counterpart, Sule Lamido, saying they speak as people who have background information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">He said: \u201cIn that distribu\u00adtion, North West has more than 7000 units, the Southeast is given about the same num\u00adber of polling units as Abuja, the Federal Capital \u2013 just a little more than 1000 units.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe new distribution of polling units correlates nega\u00adtively or inversely with the distribution of votes for Jona\u00adthan in the 2011 presidential election. The Southeast is considered as Mr. President\u2019s strongest support base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Ezeife further revealed an impending plan by INEC to \u201cclean up the voters\u201d register, which is alleged to have result\u00aded in wiping off more than half of Southeast voters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">He raised some posers: \u201cIn view of published distribution of polling units, doubt about the truth of this \u201cclean up\u201d is weakened. Is there a grand plan to rig the 2015 elections? Can it explain the indication of strong but very surprising confidence oozing out from the statements of some North\u00adern politicians, where ordinary political calculations and com\u00admon sense will suggest total absence of hope? Does it give a clue to the attempt on Buhari\u2019s life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Ezeife expressed optimism that the design will fail. He urged President Goodluck Jonathan to push for the con\u00adfirmation of the report of the just concluded National Con\u00adference, which has provided a framework for a new Nigeria in which all the groups in Ni\u00adgeria can maximize their true interests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">He suggested that the affir\u00admation of the National Confer\u00adence reports should take prece\u00addence over the 2015 elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Ezeife further submitted that the new Nigeria envisaged by the National Conference will accommodate the inter\u00adests of all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">While explaining the will\u00adingness of the South East geo-political entity to adapt in a united, progressive and non-oppressive Nigeria, he said it will not \u201cobject to peaceful disengagement and possible regrouping. Concluding, he described Jonathan as a tool in the hands of God, who has demonstrated a huge deficien\u00adcy in the archetypal manipula\u00adtive instincts of the Nigerian politician.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\u201cA little deep thinking can reveal the hands of God in the affairs of Nigeria \u201che said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Sunday Sun<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Seeks postponement of elections A former Anambra State governor, Dr Chukwuemeka Eze\u00adife, has raised the alarm that the Independent National Electoral Com\u00admission (INEC) has been hijacked by the North to&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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