Muslim Group Says Don't Blame INEC

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged Nigerians not to blame the INEC chairman, Attahiru Jega, alone for the postponement of the National Assembly elections.

The group said this was because INEC had maintained its independence through the new process and called on Nigerians not to “slay the goose that lays the golden eggs.”

Is-haq Akintola, the director of MURIC, in a statement signed on Sunday in Abuja said the group “laments over this national tragedy, but we salute the INEC chairman, Attahiru Jega, for having the courage to face the truth early in the exercise. The non-arrival of materials can hardly be blamed on him personally.”