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Sunday, March 29, 2015

ARREST, PROSECUTE JEGA NOW, LABOUR PARTY DECLARES

The labour Party (LP), has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega over what it termed over  what it termed the, "Total failure of the card reader for Saturday’s presidential election."

National Secretary of the party, Olukayode Ajulo described the poll as an election between the PDP and smart card reader.

He added that Jega should be blamed for  going ahead with the use of the card reader despite strong opposition from concerned stakeholders in the country on the problem that may emanate from the use of the cards.

Ajulo added that, "I think the election is between PDP and smart card reader. If I have my way, Professor Attahiru Jega ought to have been arrested and prosecuted.

"Because we raised this issue right from the  beginning that the card reader will fail. And it failed. This is the same Jega about six months ago that told everyone that Ekiti and Osun election are important elections to use card reader which they are not sure of.

"Then, how manage he now accepted to use card reader for presidential election. Honestly, the card reader failed woefully. Now, he now said they should use manual voter register in the last minute. Why didn’t he say that before?”

Ajulo warned Nigerians to desist from announcing fake unofficial results, saying Nigerians should not forget in a hurry what led to the post election violence in 2011.

He added that, "It is part of electoral offence for anyone to publish unofficial result. Let us wait for INEC to announce the result.

"I think that is part of what caused the post-election violence of 2011. People were posting unofficial results claiming that Buhari was leading, but by the time INEC released the official result and Jonathan won, many people resorted to violence thinking Buhari has been rigged out.

"So, I implore Nigerians to be cautious and allow INEC do their job."

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