Attahiru Jega To Give Up Position Amid Allegations Of Bias By PDP

Attahiru Jega the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission  (INEC) said he would forfiet his possition as the INEC chairman due to  the allegation of electoral corruption by the PDP party.  Attahiru Jega has said he will only give up his possition at INEC only when his term expires at june.

“I am grateful to God. I was asked to come and contribute my own quota to the national development, and I have done my bit to the best of my ability,” Jega said in an interview with the BBC’s Hausa service, according to the Daily Post. “Whatever assignment one will do for five years -- just like this difficult one, to me if one is able to successfully accomplish the task, someone else should be given the opportunity, because for me I am not interested and if I am requested to serve again, I will not do it, by God’s grace.”

 JEGA said he was not troubled by the allegations of bias against him by the PDP because he knew they were not true. “I maintained my calmness because I knew all the allegations were false,” he said. “There is nothing that frightens me or disturbs me because, of all our actions, we have explanations for them.”
Peter Godsday Orubebe, a PDP official said “We have raised issues about results in Kano, in Kaduna, Jigawa and Katsina, and yet you have done nothing about it. You are biased. You are partial. You are tribalistic,We don’t believe in you anymore. You are compromised. And we won’t take it from you.”

 And the INEC chairman replyed:
“I reject the so-called petition because it was brought to me while I was at the hall presenting results,” he said Tuesday, according to Turkey’s Anadolu news agency. “It is improper for any party agent to do so. For that reason, I do not take it, because other party agents and the media could be watching.”