BREAKING: Prof Jega Summoned By Jonathan to Villa Over Use of Card Readers, May Force Him To Resign
President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega to the presidential villa over the use of card readers for the March 28 and April 11 General election.
The decision to summon Jega followed the discovery by the presidency that the plans to jam the card reading machines meant for the election would not work.
Recall that the All Progressives Congress (APC), had Monday revealed that the PDP had hired an Israeli, Gyora Berger to do the dirty job of jamming the card readers.
A statement Monday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed said ”We can authoritatively inform Nigerians that the morbid fear of card readers by the Jonathan Administration and the PDP has now been translated into concrete action: They have hired an Israeli, Gyora Berger, to do the dirty job of jamming the card readers,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
The party said that apart from disabling the card readers, the jammers will also disable all telephones, iPads, etc within the states radius of those carrying them on their persons. It said an an order has been placed for 75,000 pieces of the jammers at a cost of 200 US dollars per piece, bringing the total cost to 15 million dollars. The jammers will be air freighted to Nigeria next week.
”The plan is to deploy the card jammers to the areas deemed to be the strongholds of the APC, such as the North-west, North-east , North-central and the South-west”, the statement added.
However, a source within the presidency revealed to Source that the hawks preparing to use the card reader jammers have discovered that the jammers cannot render INEC’s card reader ineffective.
“They have tested the card jammers with the card readers provided by INEC and they discovered that it cannot work”, a presidency source said.
Following the discovery, the source added that president Jonathan is left with no choice than to force Jega to abandon the use of the card reader for the election failure of which he will be asked to resign immediately.
“As I speak to you, Jega is in the villa meeting with some big wigs in the presidency. He will be threatened into abandoning the use of the card reader for the general election. If he refuses to bulge, he will be asked to resign immediately.
Opposition to the card reader has mounted in the past few weeks, despite the insistence by the INEC chiarman to deploy the card readers for the election. INEC has since maintained that the use of the card readers would ensure a free, fair and credible election.
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