Read What Jega Intends To Do To The North - Ezeife

Former governor of Anambra state, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife has accused the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Dr Attahiru Jega of conniving to rig the upcomming 2015 election in favour of the north.

The Harvard University Master Degree holder did not hesitate to lay the blame on this interview he granted to Sun News Nigeria.


Excerpts:
When asked of his thoughts regarding the on-going voters registration exercise by the INEC?
Well, I cannot react to that because I’ve not gotten details of the exercise, but one thing I will say is that it seems the INEC has been hijacked by the North. INEC provided for extra 30,000 polling units and allocated 21,000 to the North. 9,000 to the North-West, North-East got 1,000, so Abuja, Zamfara, and various small places got more extra polling units than the South-East.

And the whole Southern Nigeria people’s assembly demanded the resignation of Jega. The Senate resolved that he should postpone it. He went back against the wish of all the people of the South and said we must implement it.
We are now waiting because he said he is going to drop it. Once the intention to rig election is established, we must remove the person, the rigger. Jega has shown clear intention to rig the election through the polling units. After everybody has opposed that, he said “Oh! I yield”. He didn’t yield. Therefore, since his intention to rig has been established beyond reasonable doubt and he should step down.

What do you have to say on the adoption of Jonathan as a sole candidate of the PDP?
Nobody has a chance against Jonathan whether in the PDP or from outside. His being there is really an act of God. He has a purpose of being in that position and until that purpose is fulfilled, I don’t think anybody has a better chance. But it is good that many people come out to compete. The money they have stocked up over the years, they should distribute them among all of us. And that is the purpose their campaign will serve.

What do you have to say about the 2015 election and the place of Igbo on the previous agitation for presidency?
Those of us from the South-East are very lucky people. We are gifted by God. We should manage to love other people and help other people so that jealousy does not make us lose what God has given us.
Now on the presidency of Nigeria, after Goodluck Jonathan, whether he spends four years or he spends eight years, every part of Nigeria would have held the position of the president except the South-east.
We believe Nigerians would at that stage yield to an Igbo president. We can see that coming already. A new Nigeria is in the oven. You can see the decision of the National Conference.

The extra state for the South-east, virtually everybody supported it. Even when people from certain region asked negative questions about it, the Yoruba contingent at the National Conference rose like a lion and did as if they were personally hurt that somebody was asking question about one extra state for the South. They supported us. The same thing happened to the South-South person when that question arose


Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife was born on November 20, 1939 and was the governor of Anambra state from jJanuary 1992 and November 1993 during the Third Republic.
He is an alumni of the prestigious University of Ibadan, he also gained his Masters and Doctorate degrees at the Harvard University, USA.