Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described the outbursts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the possible removal of the chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Attahiru Jega as “mere comedy,” saying; “President Goodluck Jonathan can sack Jega if he wishes and if he does, heavens will not fall.”
The governor, who said the APC should stop acting as if Nigeria belongs to the party, added that, “by turning themselves to advocates and defenders of the INEC chairman, the APC and its agents have shown that they have a deal with Jega to manipulate the elections and that the deal will be frustrated if he is asked to leave office.”
Fayose stated this in a statement made available yesterday by his special assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.
The governor said, “Removal of Jega and any other appointees of the federal government is a prerogative of the president, which no one can question, provided laid down rules are followed.”
He said the position expressed by the House of Representatives was that of the APC members in the House, urging that “the APC lawmakers should rather pay attention to the ill-health of their party’s presidential candidate, General Mohammadu Buhari, whose whereabouts is now a mystery.”
The governor described Jega as partisan, saying; “By his actions and utterances, Jega had already demonstrated his bias in support of the APC. For instance, how can Jega explain the 80 percent distribution of Permanent Voters Card (PVC) in Boko Haram ravaged Borno and Yobe States while less than 40 percent distributed in Lagos as at February 7 that the election was postponed?” (Leadership)
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