Igbo Group Calls For Fresh Polls In 2012

Igbo Group Calls For Fresh Polls In 2012

AN Igbo group, Iheuwa Development Centre, is calling for this year's elections to be shifted to 2012, claiming that the South-East geo-political zone is still so distraught by what happened on Saturday.

'Director of the group, Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuague, in an on-line statement to AkanimoReports on Monday, said, ''we are calling for the stoppage of all April elections, immediate resignation or sack of Prof. Attahiru Jega as INEC Chairman, immediate resignation or sack of all INEC Commissioners, and probe into INEC affairs since 1999''

Continuing, the Igbo group said they want the leadership of the electoral body to be reconstituted at all levels - with fresh Chairman and Commissioners as well as what they described as ''comprehensive retraining and re-orientation'' of INEC personnel at all levels, and a fresh conduct voters' registration exercise.

According to them, ''we are driven by commonsense, patriotism and courage to make them - even as we realise they might be unpopular to many interested individuals. Nigeria appears likely to burn with Jega's INEC and their incompetent and corrupt handling of long-scheduled 2011 elections. We had recognised this fact since at least 26th January 2011 when we issued a widely circulated press statement calling for Jega's departure as INEC Chairman''.

They are claiming that Nigeria danced naked in the global marketplace last Saturday as she did during Delta State governorship rerun election and voters' registration exercise earlier in this year.

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