National Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), Barr. Olukayode
Ajulo has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the
chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof.
Attahiru Jega over what he called the “total failure of the card reader
for Saturday’s presidential election”.
Ajulo, who described the election as an election between the PDP and smart card reader said Jega deserves total blame for going ahead with the use of the card reader despite stiff opposition from many concerned stakeholders in the polity on the problem that may arose from the use of the cards.
When asked to comment on the result released from the polling units at the Presidential Villa, Abuja which gave victory to the All Progresives Congress (APC), Ajulo cautioned Nigerians to refrain from announcing fake unofficial results, saying Nigerians should not forget in a hurry what led to the post election violence in 2011.
Ajulo, who described the election as an election between the PDP and smart card reader said Jega deserves total blame for going ahead with the use of the card reader despite stiff opposition from many concerned stakeholders in the polity on the problem that may arose from the use of the cards.
According to him “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 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?”
When asked to comment on the result released from the polling units at the Presidential Villa, Abuja which gave victory to the All Progresives Congress (APC), Ajulo cautioned Nigerians to refrain from announcing fake unofficial results, saying Nigerians should not forget in a hurry what led to the post election violence in 2011.
“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,” he said.
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