PDP kick against INEC probe of Rivers poll, accuses Jega of bias

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(Nigeria) Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has protested the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to investigate the petition by the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, against last Saturday's Presidential and National Assembly elections in Rivers State.
The party accused the commission chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega of not only being bias but also partial, selective and tribalistic in his handling of the collation of presidential election results across the states of the federation.
Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe and Col. Bello Fadile, who represented the party as agents at the Presidential Election Results Collation Centre in Abuja, accused the INEC boss of secretly working for the APC.
Elder Orubebe, wondered why the INEC chairman constituted an investigative panel and sent same to Rivers State to look into the petition from the APC, while he failed to act in like manner on their petition against elections in seven states of the North.
The states, according to him are Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Katsina and Sokoto.
He said that PDP had also written a protest letter on concluded elections in Kano, Kastina, Kaduna and Jigawa states to the commission on Monday and Tuesday but was not accepted or attended to.
Orubebe said that the same INEC had earlier accepted the complaint of APC on Rivers State’s election on which Jega had set up a committee to investigate.
``Mr Chairman we are beginning to see that you are very selective and partial. Mr Chairman, We have lost confidence in what you are doing. If we can send a protest to you and you cannot take it, then why are we here? The essence of sending you the letter of protest is to enable you look at the matter and see whether it has merit or demerit.”
He said that the party would not accept such decision, adding that every complaint must be attended to.
“We have lost confidence in you because you are partial and selective. We don’t believe in you anymore and we cannot go on the way you are going. You have compromised and we cannot take it from you. Until something is done to our letter or protest the way you did with APC, we will not continue with you.
``You are tribalistic, you are selective and you are partial, we will not continue with you,’’ Orubebe added.
Orubebe vowed not to allow the collation process continue until INEC took a decision on the party’s complaint but it took the intervention of other agents and other stakeholders to allow Jega to respond.

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