Information available to 247ureports.com obtained through competent sources knowledgeable of the activities inside the executive offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] indicates that the INEC executive team are operating under significant distress that may disrupt the smooth conduct of the upcoming 2015 general elections. The INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega and the eleven national commissioners including the Directors are at daggers-drawn over unresolved issues that threatens disenfranchisement of select geopolitical regions.

[img]http://247nigerianewsupdate.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PVC-INEC-ELECTION.jpg[/img]

At the center of the brewing quarrel is what appears to be a growing suspicion from some of the Commissioners and Directors of southern extraction towards the INEC Chairman and the other Commissioners of northern extraction. The suspicion, according to one of the Commissioners who spoke to our reporter, is principally based on Professor Jega’s unexplained eagerness to adopt policies favorable to the expansion of the northern geopolitical region’s voting strength. The commissioner pointed to the botched attempt by Prof Jega’s at arbitrarily increasing the polling units in the geopolitical regions of the north. “We had to fight the Chairman to the point of shouting match”, explained the Commissioner who continued that the Chairman seemed “determined to increase the polling units, and would not listen to any of us at the several closed door meetings. Instead he told us that only a court decision will stop him from increasing the polling units”.


The INEC Chairman was unable to deliver on his arbitrary quest. After a month of internal struggles with his lieutenants, the INEC Chairman dropped the idea reluctantly and grudgingly. Prof Jega, as a result of his inability to carry out his agenda decided to shutout the protesting Commissioners responsible to faulting the agenda. “He stopped talking to them [commissioners from the south]”. The relationship among the commissioners took a regional face with the southern commissioners suspicious of the northern commissioners who appear to have formed a click with the Chairman – along religious lines.

The northern commissioners including the Chairman – are seven [7] in number while the southern commissioners are only five [5].

The cold relationship worsened with the commencement of the distribution of the permanent voters card [PVC]. The distribution, according to the commissioner led to near physical confrontation between one of Jega’s close ally, Dr. Mohammad Wali [Chairman of Tender’s Board] from Sokoto and one of the commissioners from the south. It was revealed that the ‘shouting-match’ ensued as the modalities for the distribution by the INEC was marshalled out to the agents on the field – instructing that the PVCs should be delivered to the various INEC offices at the Local Government Area headquarters for the registered voters to pick up/collect – with the presentation of a valid identification card. The southern commissioner discovered that the rules for the distribution for the PVCs were different for the northern geopolitical regions – the rules were relaxed to enable easy distribution of the PVCs to the populace.

According to the commissioner, the PVCs dispatched to Gombe, Kebbi, Zamfara, Bauchi, Jigawa, Sokoto, Yobe, Kano, Plateau, Nasarawa, Katsina and Kaduna [12 states] were accompanied by an agent of Dr. Wali. The PVCs were not delivered to the INEC officer at the local government headquarters – rather it was registered at the INEC office at the local government headquarters and then delivered to the local chiefs and local Imams to complete the distribution to the masses. The PVCs were then recorded as having been collected by registered voters. As at January 7, 2015, INEC data showed that 83% of the registered voters in the 12 states have collected their PVCs. [See table below]



In the remainder of the States where the PVCs were delivered/dumped at the INEC office at the local government headquarters for onward distribution – a much lower percentage of PVCs collected were reported. In Lagos, Edo, Abuja, Enugu, Anambra, Ogun, Oyo and Ondo, only 57% of the PVCs have been collected. [See table below]



When the commissioners and directors got wind of the development and what appeared a structured discrepancy on the part of the INEC Chairman and the commissioners working in cohorts with him, they cried foul. Some of the commissioners took their frustrations to the desk of the President through alternate means – warning the President that ‘something was eerie’ in the manner the INEC chairman was readying for the February 14 polls. According to the source, the group of concerned officers within the INEC were successful in getting their concerns across to the presidency. “The president was shocked and visibly angry in utter disbelief” said the source who continued that the president then ordered for an immediate update on the status of PVC distribution. “What he saw confirmed what the commissioners had told him”.

The commissioner went on to state that it was the concerned commissioners who advised the President to consider seeking for a postponement of the election date from February 14 to sometime in April – without subverting existing electoral laws. The commissioner claimed that they advised the President to seek for shift in date in order to properly distribute the PVCs in a fashion that would ensure that up to 90% of the PVCs are distributed to the registered voter. Presently, only 71% of the PVCs have been collected nationwide. Presently, 15.6million registered voters are yet to collect their PVCs.

Meanwhile, Jega remains adamant that the date of February 14 will not be moved. In a statement to Journalists on January 23, he indicated that the PVC distribution will continue till the eve of the presidential election. The INEC Chairman expressed worry over the attitude of many eligible voters who have failed to show up to collect their voters card noting that the Commission should not be blamed when voters fail to collect their PVCs. “Yes we can even allow for the distribution of PVCs up to the eve of election day which is February 13 2015 but it will be good for voters to come and collect their PVC as soon as possible”.

Jega’s insistence comes against suggestions from the security service chiefs and the national security adviser – over the slow pace of PVC distribution and its implications to national security. His insistence has become a point of concern to many within the security circles who had once viewed Prof Jega as an upright incorruptible personality who was expected to understand the sensitive and volatile political climate in the country presently. A retired service chief who shared his concern with 247ureports.com did not shy away from labeling the body language of Jega and his refusal to level the playing field across all geopolitical regions as “highly tribalistic and unbecoming of a man like him”

- See more at: http://247nigerianewsupdate.co/trouble-in-inec-jega-at-war-with-commissioners-directors/#sthash.pMYmJ2Lb.dpuf

Gi-ho-vah

Thank you

blackCITIZEN:
Thank God we got this notice by the presidency to postpone the election before now. Why is it that aggreived group are the ones with low PVC distribution rate. If they really need sometime to distribute PVC's let FG declare 3 days of public holidays afteer all shops are always locked to welcome Mr President in most PDP states. Most citizen prefer hustling to giving govt activities their time. Let FG declare public holidays if they take the election seriously and stop their cheap blackmaiks and conspiracy.
#Electionmusthold are we shall vote APC everywherem
Thank you

You've said it all


No time for cheap blackmail attempts


Feb 14 elections must hold


APC all the way!

lacasa:



You've said it all


No time for cheap blackmail attempts


Feb 14 elections must hold


APC all the way!

@™post


Very thorough analysis. Its a shame this skill has not been used to reaearch and gather material to establish the position of things on the GMB certificate issue..

What does this tell you Details like this are planted..... at cost, investigations not conducted, at cost.

The major media houses have failed in this primary oblgation and nobody should tell me that they lacked the human and material resources for investigative journalism .

I have watched , read and heard enough from.the media and my conclusion is that the profit motive is their motive... adverts for the company, browm envelope for the journalist and polutical favours for the proprietor.

Are you surprised that the media is so inept that it has failed in setting an agenda for the political debate on vital issues like capital / recurrent expenditure, remuneration of political office holders, local government finance and so on??

I don't care if this is true or false, All I know is that, if everyone must collect pvc , inec can do that within two weeks. increase collection centres and declare public holiday. ...

Election must hold Feb ,14

If this report is true, then I am highly disappointed in Jega. We must allow all voters the right to vote for their preferred candidate and let the best man win. Why subvert the people's wishes. This can cause Civil War. I repeat, if the people's popular wish is not respected, it can lead to anarchy and civil war.

Jega, be warned.

Jega has be threaten

blackCITIZEN:
Thank God we got this notice by the presidency to postpone the election before now. Why is it that aggreived group are the ones with low PVC distribution rate. If they really need sometime to distribute PVC's let FG declare 3 days of public holidays afteer all shops are always locked to welcome Mr President in most PDP states. Most citizen prefer hustling to giving govt activities their time. Let FG declare public holidays if they take the election seriously and stop their cheap blackmaiks and conspiracy.
#Electionmusthold are we shall vote APC everywherem
Thank you

Exactly. People crying foul like that poster above you are just totally ignorant. They find it very difficult understanding simple English that they don't even know the difference between PVCs distributed and PVCs collected.
Is INEC supposed to force people to go collect their PVCs?? I really don't understand these guys.

Jonathan shouldn't let his desperation get the best of him. He knows he's heading for defeat and has already rolled out plans to get Jega out of the way, and that is one of the purpose of this jaundiced reportage. Jega stays whether Jonathan likes it or not.

The northerners take election matters more seriously than we southerners. If the southerners refuse to go for their PVCs then I don't see any reason why they should be crying foul.

Even if all south south collects their PVC GEJ is still going back to otuoke. So somebody should advice those southern commissioners to save the good face for somebody else.

Jega is partisan,the earlier FG nail this man d better.Jega is depriving d southerers PVCs delibrately,while ensuring d northerners get theirs through imams,ward leaders,councilors,village heads etc.Jega is not fit to head inec

omolami:
Jega is partisan,the earlier FG nail this man d better.Jega is depriving d southerers PVCs delibrately,while ensuring d northerners get theirs through imams,ward leaders,councilors,village heads etc.Jega is not fit to head inec

GEJ is too dull for me. in the first place does he think Abokki will leave his own people to support him? thats why I call this man mugu sometimes.

I will soon withdraw my support for him. Jega he should have changed long ago.

This story sounds like one those fashioned out and shipped to the media houses by FFK, who in turn churn it out without scrutiny or verification in exchange for some brown envelopes.

Excuses, excuses; PDP have read the writing on the wall which reads to them defeat, they are therefore looking for ways to scuttle the election; first postponement and now to discredit it - just last acts of desperation from the drowning party.

Later they will say that abokki is more politically aware than an average southerner.

Dey said northerners are uneducated and are predominantly nomadic and almajirin. Yet those same highly maligned northerners, we're up and ready with their pvc"s while our professors and "highly educated" southerners pvc's were in INEC's custody.
When GEJ, TAN, ex militants, nollywood artistes, Edwin Clark, praise singing "MOG's" and PDP supporters were busy shouting GEJ till Buhari goes to school, what do u expect?
PDP sympathizers will vote with their propaganda voters cards (pvc)while APC supporters will vote with their permanent voters card (pvc).
Nothing to worry about, both na pvc!

Balkan:
GEJ is too dull for me. in the first place does he think Abokki will leave his own people to support him? thats why I call this man mugu sometimes.

I will soon withdraw my support for him. Jega he should have changed long ago.

I wonder who did your own dull (flat) head tell presided over the last elections in 2011 that ensured return of Jonathan back to officer; which even resulted in some rioting in the north due to perceived rigging against GMB - I suppose by your logic Jega couldn't have been a northerner at that time.

omenka:
Exactly. People crying foul like that poster above you are just totally ignorant. They find it very difficult understanding simple English that they don't even know the difference between PVCs distributed and PVCs collected.
Is INEC supposed to force people to go collect their PVCs?? I really don't understand these guys.

Jonathan shouldn't let his desperation get the best of him. He knows he's heading for defeat and has already rolled out plans to get Jega out of the way, and that is one of the purpose of this jaundiced reportage. Jega stays whether Jonathan likes it or not.

Do u reason before u talk must u bring partisanship into all issue

Jega practically bring PVC to the door step of d northerners
Why can't be applied for d rest

If it was north on d receiving I knw ur story will be different
Let's try and say d ugly truth
This is how they start planning war when they've avoided it
Later they will be shouting peace

HzRF:

Do u reason before u talk must u bring partisanship into all issue

Jega practically bring PVC to the door step of d northerners
Why can't be applied for d rest

If it was north on d receiving I knw ur story will be different
Let's try and say d ugly truth
This is how they start planning war when they've avoided it
Later they will be shouting peace

What do you mean by "ugly truth"?? Try not to speak "ugly english" when talking to me. I don't understand creole.

Wetin 'consign' us, GEJ your days are numbered.
Sai Buhari

omenka:
Exactly. People crying foul like that poster above you are just totally ignorant. They find it very difficult understanding simple English that they don't even know the difference between PVCs distributed and PVCs collected.
Is INEC supposed to force people to go collect their PVCs?? I really don't understand these guys.

Why not distribute it to local chiefs in the south as they did in the north for easy collections?

What is good for Musa is also good for Chukwudi.

Pvc or no pvc,GEJ has lost the election.
Its going to be a landslide.
Febuhari.

omenka:
Exactly. People crying foul like that poster above you are just totally ignorant. They find it very difficult understanding simple English that they don't even know the difference between PVCs distributed and PVCs collected.
Is INEC supposed to force people to go collect their PVCs?? I really don't understand these guys.

Jonathan shouldn't let his desperation get the best of him. He knows he's heading for defeat and has already rolled out plans to get Jega out of the way, and that is one of the purpose of this jaundiced reportage. Jega stays whether Jonathan likes it or not.

I laugh in Burundi...

san316:
I don't care if this is true or false, All I know is that, if everyone must collect pvc , inec can do that within two weeks. increase collection centres and declare public holiday. ...

Election must hold Feb ,14

Somebody should tell them how,Nepa bill is distributed every month and everybody dey get , Nansense amd ingredient!!!!!!

waternogeteneny:
Wat is the number of the registered voters across the country. The last time I checked it was 54,341,610.


What is Atairu Jega upto in terms of distribution of PVC.


He appears to have mainly distributed the PVC in the North and Southwest.



When will people in central, south east and south south receive their PVC?


Who is looking into the activities of Jega?

I said it last year that Jega is a BH sympathizer


This country will not survive this year if SS is cheated


US prediction will come to past


Is Nigeria Sarduna's estate

Why is the North power thirsty


If quota system is applied in admission into schools and federal jobs/appointments to give unqualified Northerners a say,

We must apply quota system in ensuring that ethnic groups of few thousands are allowed to RULE Nigeria


What is good for A is also good for B

Say No To Internal colonialism

Say No To Political Slavery

Say No To Born To Rule


Hypocrisy must not be allowed to thrive

Abeg. Let them go to court if they feel they have a case. Otherwise FeBuhari 14th is an unmoveable date.

#change
#GMB
#APC

Balkan:
GEJ is too dull for me. in the first place does he think Abokki will leave his own people to support him? thats why I call this man mugu sometimes.

I will soon withdraw my support for him. Jega he should have changed long ago.

Jonathan has a way of getting on supporters' nerves. He is too tolerant for a Nigerian president.

Democratic tenets are good but they must be calibrated against realities on ground. The black man is known to take liberties with liberty so it should be administered with caution. He allowed freedom of speech and expression to thrive but they are haunting him today. Some people are deeming him weak and irresolute. He certainly needs to exhibit more firmness.


I am really worried with Jega's assertiveness and trenchant disposition. The man is wielding too much power. Imagine him insisting that elections must hold on 14 February when the security situation in the North East is chaotic. How does he intend to guarantee a free, fair and credible election in the Boko Haram ravaged states?

The man has to be closely monitored as one goof from him can easily precipitate a civil war.

The best solution is to allow evry eligible voter who can be identified on the voters register to Vote, either with a TVC or PVC

Still wondering how an ineligible underage secondary student who didn't register in 2010 but now a member of a political party got PVC in 2014

Covert rigging via hacking of INEC database And the man said no one can do that except via an insider

INEC should have requested for public holidays or ensure PVC are distributed every weekend. JEGA should do the needful if he's a man of integrity cos it will be evil of him disenfranchising nigerians for selfish interests.

ItsMeAboki:
This story sounds like one those fashioned out and shipped to the media houses by FFK, who in turn churn it out without scrutiny or verification in exchange for some brown envelopes.

Excuses, excuses; PDP have read the writing on the wall which reads to them defeat, they are therefore looking for ways to scuttle the election; first postponement and now to discredit it - just last acts of desperation from the drowning party.

I was just about to Say the same thing. This news has FFK written all over it. they are trying to discredit jega so that he can resign and then use that to postpone the election

All in my head is











Sai Buhari