{"id":36651,"date":"2015-03-08T22:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T21:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=36651"},"modified":"2015-03-08T22:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T21:50:42","slug":"sack-jega-now-opc-leader-gani-adams-tells-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/sack-jega-now-opc-leader-gani-adams-tells-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sack Jega Now, OPC leader, Gani Adams tells Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425851296946_1987\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">The head of the Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, Gani Adams, has called for the immediate sack of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425851296946_2179\" style=\"color: #444444;\">Mr. Adams, an ally of President Goodluck Jonathan, stated this while speaking in Lagos on Sunday.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425851296946_2180\" style=\"color: #444444;\">Among the reasons for his call, Mr. Adams said Mr. Jega has failed to explain how INEC was able to successfully distribute 90 per cent of Permanent Voters Card, PVC, in North East despite the insurgency in the region.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425851296946_2181\" style=\"color: #444444;\">\u201cI Otunba Gani Adams is using this forum to call for immediate sack, removal or retirement of Professor Attahiru Jega, the chairman of INEC on the basis of PVC distribution, introduction of card reader and creation of 30000 bogus and fraudulent polling units in the northern part of Nigeria against the southern part,\u201d the head of the Yoruba socio-cultural group said while speaking on his organisation\u2019s Eledumare Festival.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Mr. Adams also voiced his opposition to the use of card readers for the general elections, saying, \u201cWe have not heard how card readers contributed or added value to any major election in the world.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u201cTo me, it\u2019s an attempt cleverly being injected by Jega to cause delay, confuse voters and prevent majority of voters in exercising their franchise on that day\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">The electoral agency had explained that the decision to use card readers was to limit electoral fraud by ensuring that only true owners of legitimate cards could use them to vote. The opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, which supports the use of the readers, has repeatedly alleged that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its supporters, do not want the readers used so as to perpetuate electoral fraud; a claim the ruling party denies.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Despite INEC announcing it had dropped the plan to create additional polling units after the announcement last year created divides along ethno-religious lines, Mr. Adams accused the electoral agency boss of proceeding with the plan.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u201cIn his ingenious but highly fraudulent stride at rigging the election, Professor Jega has gone through the back door at creating an additional 30,000 polling units not known to law and designated as voting centres to deceive people having been heavily criticised by distinguished and eminent Nigerians,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">The OPC leader said the various actions of the INEC chair would have earned him an immediate removal and sack in other climes<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">While calling for Mr. Jega\u2019s sack, Mr. Adams urged the federal government to begin the search for a new INEC chair.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u201cThe new chair can come from anywhere. 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