‘APC, Fayemi lack moral right to oppose Jega’s removal’

Ado Ekiti—The governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the former governor of the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, lack moral rights to oppose any plan to remove the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega from office.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed and INEC Boss Prof Attahiru Jega

In a statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti yesterday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose pointed out that APC are speaking with double mouths as they had earlier in 2013 called for the removal of Jega.
Fayose said asking Jega to go on three months terminal leave does not amount to his sack.
Fayose said: “Asking Jega to go on his mandatory terminal leave is not the same as sacking him; more so that his tenure would lapse in June and he is entitled to three months terminal leave.”
He said the APC must tell Nigerians what has changed in Jega’s handling of elections since the party was led by General Mohammadu Buhari, Senator Bola Tinubu and others on a street protest in Abuja on November 28, 2013 to call for the sack of the INEC Chairman and the entire management of the electoral commission after the Anambra State governorship election.
The governor said; “Nigerians must ask Buhari, Tinubu and other APC leaders, who led street protest against Jega, carrying placards with inscriptions such as; ‘INEC not fit to conduct 2015 election,’ ‘2015, no hope with Jega,’ what has changed about Jega’s credibility.
“Has the same Jega that they said cannot conduct the 2015 elections seized from being a bad person?
“APC lost the Anambra election and took to the streets in Abuja, calling for Jega’s head, is the INEC boss now doing their biddings because the APC will only stand against any individual or organisation that refused to be corrupted?”
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