The leadership of the Southern Nigeria
Peoples Assembly has asked the Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to resign from office with
immediate effect.
Jega was accused of
having ethnic agenda with the commission’s recent creation of additional
30,000 polling units in the country.
The
chairman of the commission had defended the creation, saying that the
action was meant to bring the total polling units in the country to
150,000 and that it would decongest the polling units ahead of the 2015
general elections.
Jega on Wednesday
said he would not resign his position but would conduct the 2015 general
elections with the best intention and in national interest.
But the Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly on Wednesday disagreed.
Leaders
of the group, which included former Vice President, Chief Alex Ekwueme;
a former Federal Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark; and
Senator Femi Okurounmu, said the action was not justifiable.
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