Pres. Jonathan Plans to REMOVE INEC Chairman Jega’s before Election

Vanguard has learnt that  the Presidency are planning to replace the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, chairman  Prof Attahiru Jega  in a bid for  President Goodluck Jonathan to successfully  wins the election convincingly.

With the election postponed, Pres. Jonathan and his allies are shopping to take out independent-minded person Jega, and ‘uncooperative’ despite being given the job on a platter of gold by the president’s men, vanguard gathered.

Vanguard learnt that Jega might have unknowingly fall prey into the hands of the forces arrayed against him by agreeing to shift the elections.


Failure of Jega to disqualify APC candidate Buhari, the move now is to  remove Jega and the legal fireworks against Buhari, would be taken up simultaneously with effect from this week given the timeframe made possible by the shift.

The retired general is to be prosecuted by a team of legal luminaries for ‘lying on oath’ that he had a school certificate with the Nigerian Army when he knew that it was untrue. The plaintiffs are said to have settled for trying Buhari for alleged ‘perjury’ instead of outright non-possession of certificate following legal advice that the latter would be more difficult to prove within the time at their disposal.

Vanguard learnt that although Jega reluctantly succumbed to pressure from the Presidency and its security chiefs to shift the polls, he might still not be allowed by the forces to conduct the rescheduled elections between March 28 and April 11.

Vanguard gathered from competent sources that the Presidency was no longer comfortable with Jega and was, therefore, working tirelessly to get him out of the commission to pave the way for a more ‘trusted hand’ to conduct the rescheduled elections.

Vanguard gathered that in his place, the Presidency was considering bringing in another academic from the South-West, who is currently heading a tertiary institution in the country. The professor of Political Science and International Relations is said to be a sibling of a serving governor in the South-West, who is a close ally of President Goodluck Jonathan and his party.

Competent sources also told Vanguard last night that although the name of the academic had been made known in security circles, it was not clear whether the man had been cleared by the forces with a view to sending his name to the National Assembly for possible confirmation, as required by law.

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Source: Vanguard