How ex-INEC Chairman, Jega disappointed me in 2015 – Goodluck Jonathan
Jonathan despite conceding defeat after the
2015 Presidential election ha expressed
disappointment with how the then Chairman of
the Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, Attahiru Jega conducted the election.
This revelation was contained in a book written
by the Chairman of THISDAY editorial board,
Segun Adeniyi.
In the book which will be launched
Adeniyi quoted the former President as saying
Jega disappointed him.
The former President also said he had a
meeting with Jega to express his reservations
about the preparedness of INEC for the
exercise, but the ex-INEC Chairman maintained
that the election would go ahead as scheduled.
According to Jonathan, “I was disappointed by
Jega because I still cannot understand what
was propelling him to act the way he did in the
weeks preceding the election.
“As at the first week in February 2015 when
about 40 percent of Nigerians had not collected
their PVCs, Jega said INEC was ready to
conduct an election in which millions of people
would be disenfranchised.
“Of course, the Americans were encouraging
him to go ahead yet they would never do such a
thing in their own country. How could we have
cynically disenfranchised about a third of our
registered voters for no fault of theirs and still
call that a credible election?”
“The interesting thing was that the opposition
also supported the idea of going on with the
election that was bound to end in confusion,”
the former president said.
The book which was seen by TheCable quoted
the former President as saying security reasons
was responsible for the postponement of the
election.
“When the military and security chiefs
demanded for more time to deal with the
insurgency, the reasons were genuine.
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“As at February 2015, it would have been very
difficult to vote in Gombe, Adamawa, Borno and
Yobe states.
“But the moment all the arms and ammunition
that had been ordered finally arrived, the military
was able to use them to degrade the capacity
of Boko Haram to the level in which they posed
the threat to the election,” he said.
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