Tinubu Charges Jega to conduct credible elections or resign

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu

The former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has on Thursday in Lagos charged  the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Atahiru Jega, to conduct perfect election or resigns.

He advised  Prof. Atahiru Jega to resign if he could not guarantee perfect elections in 2015.

Tinubu spoke after the All Progressives Congress membership registration sensitisation meeting held at the party’s secretariat in Lagos.

The All Progressive Congress Chieftain made the statement in response to the one credited to Jega that Nigerians should not expect perfect elections in 2015.

He  said with such comment, “Jega is already admitting failure and laying foundation for failure.

The former governor also said Jega should have learnt his lessons after having conducted elections in 2011.

According to him, "If he can’t do the job, let him quit. What do we pay him for? A perfect election makes a perfect society. We must strive to give the people what they want.

“It has to be a perfect election in 2015; it has to be 99.9 percent perfect. If he wants to lecture again about perfect and imperfection of electoral process, let him go back to the university.”

“Jega is presently moving from one country to the other. Is he saying that he has not learnt enough from this country to give us a perfect election?

“He is in America now, gallivanting around the countries. Is it the estacodes of his speeches that is enough for us? If he has not learnt from these countries in the last few years, then we can excuse him,” he said.

On the defection of Lawmakers, Tinubu said every lawamakers has the constitutional right to decamp to any party of his choice.