Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has refuted statements making rounds that he was pressured by the presidency to help swing the elections results in the favour of the presidency.
Jega who is leaving office June this year made this known yesterday in the morning programme of Hausa service of Voice of America while being interviewed on whether or not he was ever lobbied by the president to act in his favour.
He emphasized that ‘all the allegations that Jonathan had put so much pressure on me was not true’, adding that such attempt to compromise him had never taken place anywhere.
Instead, the INEC boss clarified that since he became the chairman of the commission, all the money he requested from the president were given to him completely.
Recall that there were pre-election accusations of plot by Jega to rig the elections.
Whlie series of groups and some opposition parties raised allegations of plots by the outgoing President, Goodluck Jonathan to compromise the INEC boss, the ruling party, PDP, also accused him of planning to rig the elections in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
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