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| Prof Attahiru Jega |
After PDP party agent
Godsday Orubebe created an embarrassing scene at the collation centre in Abuja
this morning, trying to disrupt announcement of results a very calm Jega told
him;
"Mr Orubebe, you
are a former Minister of the Federal Republic. You are a statesman in your own
right. You should be careful about what you say or what allegations or
accusations you make. Certainly you should be careful about your public
conduct"
Jega's response to
Orubebe has been hailed as mature and worthy of praise. Prof Jega's full response FOLLOWS:
"You have made two
comments. One is that you submitted a petition which I refused to accept.
Secondly you claimed that there was a result released by the APC which you alleged
that we gave to them or I gave to them. With regards to the first point,
yesterday after we took the first batch of results in this hall and as we
declared a recess until 4pm, as I
was walking down back to the office, my PA came to me and said that here are
some papers that Dr Bello Fadile, a representative of the PDP said that he
should collect it; that I said Dr Fadile should give him those papers. I told
him that I didn't tell Dr Fadile to give any papers to you. Return them to him
because Dr Fadile, after we declared for recess came on to this platform.
As a
party agent, he is not supposed to do that and gave some documents to my PA who
is writing results here. and I am sure some of the agents and some of the
pressmen may have seen that and I told my PA to take back those documents to
him. If he told you I told him to give you any documents, I did not. Take them
back to him. Subsequently, Dr Fadile sent me a text message saying that there
are petitions and that he wants to submit them. I told him we don't collect
petitions on the platform when we are declaring results and then he said I
should have left my office open so that they can submit those petitions in my
office. I told him our secretary, the secretary to the commission is not
anywhere in this hall. She is in her office and that her business is to receive
communication. If they are important enough, she would bring them to me here. I
have started collation. I cannot be receiving petition in this hall or in this
platform. And when I replied that text message, he replied again and said Okay,
he will see what he can do. I interpreted the text as he was going to take that
petition or whatever document he has to the secretary of the commission. As I
speak with you now, I have not received anything from the secretary to the
commission. That is regards to the issue of the so called petition.
Regarding results
published by APC on its website, I do not give results to anybody. The results
were announced formally as INEC are results declared here. And we have warned
everybody to be careful and to ensure that the do not declare results which we
have not officially announced. So as far as I am concerned I have not seen any
results. I have not given anybody any results. So for you to even engage me on
that issue I think frankly that is not fair to me. I have not seen the results.
How can I speak on something that I have not seen. So please let us be careful
of what we say or do so that we do not disrupt a process that has ended
peacefully and in a matter of hours we would be able to finish it," Jega
said
Originally
published in Linda Ikeji Blog
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