Jega Is PDP’s Errand Boy, Says CPC.

EMMA OKEREH.

National Secretary, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Buba Galadima, has discribed the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, as an “errand  boy to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Galadima, who spoke exclusively with LEADERSHIP WEEKEND, also dismissed the recent statement by the INEC boss on his plans to enforce the electoral law on party funding.
In his view, Jega does not have the guts to stand up to the PDP government that appointed him and cut their spendings during electioneering campaigns.
He expressed doubt on the INEC chief,s readiness to carry out the threat as according to him, Jega was present when billions of naira were raised and donated to the ruling party, even when it was not supposed to receive more than  N1 million from an individual.”
Galadima stressed that the pronouncement would have been applauded if Jega had the capacity to implement it. He alleged that the INEC chairman “who shuttles between his office and the Presidential Villa couldn’t dare the PDP, and so cannot change the situation.
“Ordinarily, one would have commended him for having the courage to say this, but on the contrary, does he have the guts to face the PDP and tell them, as well as give guidelines?
“Are oil subsidy thieves not telling anybody that cared to know that after all, the billions of naira they collected was invested into the PDP elections in 2011?” he queried.
He wondered if Jega did not know that his counterpart in Ghana had never stepped into the presidential house in Ghana in the last 22 years he was appointed the electoral boss.
The CPC scribe also faulted the credit Jega claimed after the 2011 general elections. In his view, over 99 per cent of Nigerians didn’t believe his claims.
“I don’t think that 99.9 per cent of Nigerians believe what he said. In fact, there were songs composed, accusing and calling him all sorts of names, which he has not denied up till date.
“I don’t want to venture into the argument of whether he held a free and fair election in 2011. His conscience should prick him, and he should go and find out from his counterpart in Ghana, if they were the errand boys of the government of Ghana,” he concludes.
Galadima also decried the attitude of Nigerians to politics, and urged them to wake up, otherwise the PDP would continue to dominate the Nigerian political space.
While reacting to the statement, the Director, Public Affairs INEC, Mr. Emmanuel Umenger in a telephone interview with LEADERSHIP WEEKEND that the commission finds it very hard to believe the statement credited to Buba Galadima because “ we respect him as a very senior member of CPC, but if indeed he said so then he has a responsibility to prove to the world that Jega is PDP’s errand boy”.