I suspect foul play in Election postponement —Oby Ezekwesili

Many Nigerians are beginning to read meanings to the pressure put on Prof Attahiru Jega by Presidency and the Military to postpone the elections at all cost. One of such Nigerians is the respected former Minister of Education and lead campaigner in the Bring Back Our Girls group, Oby Ezekwesili.

Dr Ezekwesili has expressed fear about the postponement of the 2015 polls, suggesting a foul play:

EXPOSED: the Real Man behind the Postponement of Election

Ali Modu Sheriff, The Poll Shift and The Chad Billions Boko Haram Contract

Meetings between the president of Nigeria, Ali Modu Sheriff and the President of Chad decided the freakish junction Nigeria traversed this weekend.

Modu Sheriff is behind the postponement of the February general election date; he is bigger than you, than Jega, than me, than all 168 million Nigerians and I have evidence...

2015 Elections: Why APC May Lose Lagos State

The cracks may look papered and the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Lagos after its primaries across the state would believe the party is still united and should coast to victory in the elections in 2015, but they may wake up and find the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Alausa and to be candid I wouldn’t be surprised one bit.

Let me admit that some of the candidates in APC whose political ambitions were stonewalled are known to me in one form or the other, but my analysis and opinion here are totally rigorous and devoid of sentiments or malice. Wole Soyinka just described President Goodluck Jonathan as the biblical Nebuchadnezzar, and while I certainly agree with him, I would like to say

we have a Nebuchadnezzar and Emperor Nero rolled into one in Lagos state and that man unfortunately is APC chieftain Bola Tinubu.

Election Postponement: Here Are the Reasons Given by Jega

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We invited you here today to make known the position of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the timetable for the 2015 general elections. Let me state from the outset that the Commission’s position was reached after carefully weighing the suggestions from briefings held with different stakeholders in the electoral process.

The conduct of elections in a country like Nigeria is invariably a collective venture that involves not just the Election Management Body (EMB), but also a diverse range of stakeholders, notably security agencies, political parties and their candidates, voters, as well as interest groups, such as the civil society organizations and the media. To guarantee successful conduct of elections, there are things that are wholly the responsibility of the EMB. But there are other things critical for the success of elections, which fall outside the control of the EMB.

If service chiefs can't give Security for Polls, they should resign

One year and one month later, and under his very watch, Boko Haram has become savagely audacious. The embarrassing failure of CDS Alex Badeh and Jonathan’s government has become an excuse to mess with the country’s future, making us look like a land of fools and idiots.

In decent countries Badeh, all the service chiefs and indeed Jonathan, their appointor, would have resigned with their tails between their legs.

They would have publicly apologised for the grief they have brought upon the nation through their incompetence. They would have repented for the shame of Nigeria, once Africa’s giant, now reduced to looking to Chad and Cameroon and Niger Republic for salvation from Boko Haram.