By: Tonesky Nesta
Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega says the commission decided to stick to the January 6, 2011 date for Delta State gubernatorial rerun in order not to disrupt the April 2011 general elections.
The former ASUU helmsman who gave the explanation in an exclusive interview with Channels Television at Abuja a week to the rerun explained that if the Delta rerun election was postponed it would have affected the January 15 to 29, 2011 voters’ registration exercise as well as the February 3 through 10th display of the register. This according to him is a period of intense activity and any attempt to shift the Delta guber rerun would have disrupted the programme.
On protests over the use of the old voters’ register for the rerun, Prof. Jega while stating that the position of the Commission is within the law, promised that they were going to remove duplications, verifiable omissions and obvious mistakes in the register. The INEC boss dismissed the litigation of 2007 RPN gubernatorial running mate, stating that the Commission has the best legal advice both within and outside “that the party can hold election in order to produce another candidate based on the situation they found themselves”.
On the advice that INEC sought legal variation by postponing the poll in order to ensure producing a credible voters’ register for the just concluded guber election, Prof. Jega responded, “going to ask for variation of court judgement on the rerun will not help matters, rather it will further compound the process”,
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