Breaking: Professor Jega Summoned By Presidency, Asked To Jettison Card Reader.

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Professor Jega has been summoned to the Presidential Villa following confirmation that the card hammers procured won't work

SKYTREND NEWS gathered that he has been asked to jettison the use of the electronic card readers or resign as INEC Chairman.

A renown twitter blogger @Ayourb, who confirmed the information in a series of  tweets, "We have it on good authority that he will be INSTRUCTED to jettison the card reader or else resign." See tweets below:


 The Godfather @Ayourb  ·  1h 1 hour ago
1.Breaking News: Professor Jega has been summoned to the Presidential Villa following confirmation that the card hammers procured won't work
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The Godfather @Ayourb  ·  1h 1 hour ago
2. We have it on good authority that he will be INSTRUCTED to jettison the card reader or else resign. THIS is NOT a JOKE..
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Also an online portal, The Complex reports as follows:


"We have been reliably informed that the presidency invited the INEC chairman to the villa following confirmation that the card reader jammers procured by the PDP and the federal government won’t work.

"We gathered that Professor Jega will be instructed to discontinue with his plans to use the card readers for the forthcoming elections and if he fails to abide by the wish of the presidency, he will be asked to resign."

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Update From Premium Times;

A crucial meeting with likely implications for the forthcoming general elections, scheduled to hold on March 28 and April 11, is currently underway at the presidential villa, Abuja.

President Goodluck Jonathan, the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, and chiefs of all security and intelligence services are attending the meeting, which started around 11am.

An INEC source said there will be a “definite pronouncement” about the elections after the meeting.

The meeting holds amid anxiety that the Peoples Democratic Party-controlled federal government may have concluded plans to sack Mr. Jega ahead of the elections. Different groups supporting Mr. Jonathan’s re-election bid have passed vote of no confidence on the INEC boss and called for his removal.

The latest of such anti-Jega protests was on Monday, by members of the Odua Peoples Congress in Lagos.
Mr. Jega is expected to brief the meeting on the preparations for the elections.

Also, security and intelligence services chiefs are billed to give update on the success recorded in the ongoing war against Boko Haram terrorism as well as preparations for the elections.

The general elections, earlier scheduled to start February 14, were pushed back by six weeks, over security concerns, after the security chiefs warned that they could not guarantee security during the elections.

The meeting has in attendance Vice President Namadi Sambo; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim; Chief of Staff to the President, Jones Arogbofa; National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki; Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh; Chief of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah; Chief of Naval Staff, Usman Jibrin; Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu; Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba.

Others in attendance are the Attorney-General of the Federation, Muhammed Adoke; Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan; Minister of Interior, Aba Moro; and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali, as well as the heads of the Department of State Security and the National Intelligence Agency.