JEGA, our hero

INEC chairman, Attahiru Jega

I am surprised with lots of Nigerians on their short-sightedness at issues sometimes. Many are hailing the Nigerian incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan as a hero, why???
for conceding defeat to an election which he lost...hmmm???

Wait a minute, isn't that what losers are supposed to do???
Hmmm!

Well, as much as it is honourable of Jonathan to have conceded victory to his opponent, please let us not try to take the shine from the real man, the man who despite all pressures delivered a poll we are all proud of today... even though you may not believe it, this man, is the saviour of our democracy not GEJ nor GMB because if he had wanted he would have followed in the paths of his predecessors:

• Eyo Esua (1960-1966)
• Michael Ani (1976-1979)
• Victor Ovie-Whiskey (1983)
• Ephraim Akpata (1998-1999
• Abel Guobadia (2000-2005)
• Maurice Iwu (2005-2010)

..men who as umpires jettisoned the constitution for their principal's ambitions.

In my books, Jega now ranks second in terms of importance among the following former Electoral commission chairmen:

• Eme Awa (1987-1989)
• Humphrey Nwosu (1989-1993)
• Prof. Okon Uya (1993-1994)
• Sumner Dagogo-Jack (1994-1998).

he introduced PVC and card reader

Just in case you wish to know who ranks first on the list to me, it is Prof. Humphrey Nwosu,from Anambra State (South-east) who took over from Awa, his former teacher, and served till 1993. He conducted the June 12 election (presumed to have been won by the late Chief Moshood Abiola) which up till Saturday 28th March, 2015 was seen as the freest and fairest election ever in the history of Nigeria. It was under him that the electoral commission introduced the novel voting system of Option A4 and Open Ballot System just like under Jega, the commission introduced the card reader and PVC which helped to check irregularities thereby saving our democracy..

Jegaquin...antidote for Orubetitis

What really endeared me to him was the way he handled Orubebe
(many funny guys out there claim he gave Jegaquin for Orubebe's Orubebetitis, how funny, lolz) and the other PDP agents during the collation exercise, he proved to us all that indeed he knows his onions.











JEGA is the man...all hail JEGA
all hail JEGA, our hero
all hail JEGA, the saviour of our democracy!!!!