JEGA Responds to Poll Queries

The chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega has responded to a number of issues that have arisen since the botched national assembly poll on Saturday.

On the issue of inaccurate or missing party logos, he said that part of the problem was caused by, what he called “the incessant changes of candidates following court judgments”

But he also conceded that some of the problems were caused by INEC “not supervising the process sufficiently.”

As to Regional Election Commissioners carrying on with polling after the announcement of the suspension, he explained that this arose because they were pressurised by the voters to continue with the exercise.



He reiterated his stance that voters should be allowed to stay around polling centres after voting to enable them to monitor the voting and counting process and promised to look into reports that soldiers had beaten up poll observers in Nasarawa State.

He ended by making a plea for “Nigerians to give INEC another chance”. But, he added, “it is crucial that INEC on its part demonstrates that it is fully in control of the situation”