Why Jega must go, by Bode George, Gbenga Daniel, Ogunlewe, Babatope, others

Why Jega must go, by Bode George, Gbenga Daniel, Ogunlewe, Babatope, others

COMMUNIQUE OF THE SOUTH-WEST PRESIDENTIAL
CONTACT COMMITTEE ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16,
2015 IN LAGOS

The South West Presidential Contact Committee
Group of Peoples Democratic Party met on Monday
February 16, 2015 in Lagos State, deliberated
exhaustively on the State of the nation and especially
on the recent pronouncements of former President
Obasanjo and, therefore, resolved as follows:

1.President Goodluck Jonathan deserves the support
of all meaning Nigerians in the arduous challenges
of Nation building.

2.It is cruel and unforgiving to intimate that the
rescheduling of the election date was done to favour
the Peoples Democratic Party.

3.From all verifiable indices, the Independent
National Electoral Commission was grossly
unprepared to carry out a free and fair election as
the published collection of the Permanent Voter’s
Card was deliberately skewed in favour of the North.

4.The intervention of former President Olusegun
Obasanjo in the current national challenges is
distorted, unstatesmanly, too personalised and
provocative.

5.Former President Obasanjo cannot and must not
assume the role of the Nigerian overlord with
infallible wisdom.

6.Former President Obasanjo has descended into the
bitter fray of a common partisan actor without the
distinction and dignity of a rallying unifying leader.

7.Former President Obasanjo has been very inciting,
precipitous and violent in his utterances and,
therefore likely to provoke untoward events in this
nation.

8.We condemn vigorously with all sense of patriotic
candour any attempt by former President Obasanjo
or anybody else, to provoke the collapse or vitiation
of our democracy.

9.For emphasis, we restate that the rescheduling of
the election date is a patriotic and legitimate
decision which will prevent the disenfranchisation
of about 34 per cent of Nigerian citizens.

10.In the light of the deliberate, overt and
tendentious policies of Professor Attahiru Jega
pertaining to his partisan gestures, nuances,
conflicting protestations and most especially his
overwhelming partiality in the distribution of the
Permanent Voter Cards to the detriment and
marginalisation of about 16 million eligible voters of
South-West, we, the South-West Presidential Contact
Committee Group, hereby appropriately resolves that
Professor Attahiru Jega, having failed decisively in
his appointed role of a neutral, non-partisan
electoral umpire, should hereby be removed
forthwith for gross dereliction of duty and deliberate
partisan complicity.

Chief Olabode George
Senator Seye Ogunlewe
Maj. Gen. A.T. Olanrewaju
Otunba Gbenga Daniel
Elder Joju Fadairo
Otunba Adebisi Omoyeni
Amb. Toye Olofintuyi
Sen. Adefemi Kila
Chief Segun Adegoke
Prince Nekan Olateru-Olagbegi
Mr. Kingsley Kuku
Olayinka Omilani
Chief Ebenezer Babatope
Sen. Dr. Olu Alabi
Dr. Saka Balogun
Alh. Mustapha Omokunmi