The alarming pressure on Mr. Jega forced him to call a meeting of political parties, non-governmental organizations and resident electoral commissioners in Abuja today. Although the meetings are yet to end, Mr. Jega has confided in several people that he was open to considering a six-week postponement.

Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is close to bowing to fierce pressure by announcing a six-week postponement of the February general elections. However, even though Mr. Jega is all but certain to do the bidding of President Goodluck Jonathan by setting a latter date for the elections, our sources in the Presidency insist that Mr. Jega will not survive as INEC chair much longer if plans by the Presidency to sack him materialize.

SaharaReporters has consistently reported that President Jonathan and his closest associates have been desperate to postpone the elections to enable them to re-strategize in the face of certain signs that Mr. Jonathan and his party were on the cusp of losing by a wide margin.

Once Mr. Jega makes it official that the elections will be postponed, Mr. Jonathan and members of his close-knit kitchen cabinet plan to intensify their plot to plant an interim government after successfully removing Mr. Jega as INEC chairman. Mr. Jega’s tenure is scheduled to end in June 2015.

Our sources reveal that the president and his team are exploring several options to ease Mr. Jega out of his INEC job. One option, according to a source embedded in the Presidency, is to ask the INEC chair to go on “termination leave” as early as the end of March, 2015. A second and more potent strategy is to launch a series of subterranean threats to his life and a series blackmail strategies,including the use of sections of the Nigerian media to accuse Mr. Jega of corruption in the award of INEC contracts.

SaharaReporters learnt that the heads of Nigeria’s security agencies, under direct instructions from the Presidency, categorically told Mr. Jega yesterday that they could not guarantee establishing a climate for free and fair elections to hold in February. They also reportedly warned Mr. Jega that they could not guarantee his personal safety and those of other INEC staff should elections go ahead on February 14th as currently scheduled.

The alarming pressure on Mr. Jega forced him to call a meeting of political parties, non-governmental organizations and resident electoral commissioners in Abuja today. Although the meetings are yet to end, Mr. Jega has confided in several people that he was open to considering a six-week postponement.

One of our sources said President Jonathan’s aides had bribed several briefcase political parties to go to INEC to demand a postponement of the elections.

The real agenda of President Jonathan’s inner circle is two-fold, according to information obtained from sources in the Presidency. The first is a desperate desire to get tenure extension at all cost through the backdoor. The second is to buy enough time to prepare the army to help rig the elections in favor of Mr. Jonathan should the incumbent president and the PDP continue to face bleak prospects in the polls.

Two sources at the Presidency disclosed that Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke was particularly rattled at the prospect of Mr. Jonathan’s defeat. Ms. Alison-Madueke, who has engineered several shady deals in the oil sector that enabled her, Mr. Jonathan and a few cronies to pocket billions of dollars, is described of deeply scared of exposure and possible jail time should Mr. Jonathan lose the elections. The sources said the Petroleum Minister had persuaded Mr. Jonathan to sign off on her series of corrupt deals in the oil sector by arguing that the billions of dollars she was stealing would be used to guarantee re-election for the president. The minister used several fronts, including Jide Omokri, Kola Aluko, and Toye Cole in a series of questionable deals. One of her fronts, Mr. Aluko, who was also the minister’s lover, reportedly ran away with more than $2 billion dollars after a jealous Ms. Alison-Maduekebegan to hound him for dating former supermodel Naomi Campbell.

A source close to the Presidency also disclosed that Mr. Jonathan had struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Chadian President Idris Deby to outsource the fight against Boko Harm to Chad. With Chad now fighting Boko Haram on Nigerian territory, President Jonathan and his backers within the military would have enough troops to deploy to help rig the elections, said the source.

The president has already deployed soldiers massively into Lagos today to forestall any peaceful protests against the postponement of elections.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/07/jega-being-forced-announce-six-week-postponement-president-jonathan-wants-him-sacked

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My heart bleeds for this country. The most annoying part of this all is that some section of the country who can not think objectively will still continue to support GEJ due to regional sentimentality.

This man is gradually pushing us to another civil war.

arsetalks:
My heart bleeds for this country. The most annoying part of this all is that some section of the country who can not think objectively will still continue to support GEJ due to regional sentimentality.

This man is gradually pushing us to another civil warm.

It is people like you who read pepper soup joint stories like this and believe that should make effort to be objective in your analysis by taking advantage of more reliable, objective and responsible news outlets at your finger tips and not sahara distorters.

I like JEGA, I consider him a man of integrity. Where would we find another like him if he is sacked? He has really helped electoral reform in Nigeria and I would hate to see him go without delivering this 2015 elections.

Gboliwe:
I like JEGA, I consider him a man of integrity. Where would we find another like him if he is sacked? He has really helped electoral reform in Nigeria and I would hate to see him go without delivering this 2015 elections.

Unfortunately, GEJ has a different idea. He can see that he has no hope of rigging the 2015 elections with Jega in charge.

Tranquill:


It is people like you who read pepper soup joint stories like this and believe that should make effort to be objective in your analysis by taking advantage of more reliable, objective and responsible news outlets at your finger tips and not sahara distorters.

one month ago, SR blew open GEJ/PDP's plan, were you all not saying it was a lie?

Now that they have been proved right, one will think you all would be mature enough to admit error of your judgment.

SomebodyLovesMe:


Unfortunately, GEJ has a different idea. He can see that he has no hope of rigging the 2015 elections with Jega in charge.

GEJ will win the election. He has no need to rig. I don't believe SR.

@mod fp abeg.

Gboliwe:


GEJ will win the election. He has no need to rig. I don't believe SR.

You seem convinced that GEJ will win. GEJ's actions show that he thinks otherwise. You watch and see events unfold over the next few weeks.

Tranquill:


It is people like you who read pepper soup joint stories like this and believe that should make effort to be objective in your analysis by taking advantage of more reliable, objective and responsible news outlets at your finger tips and not sahara distorters.

You are the irresponsible person here, not able to discern the concerted moves by a desperate government to avoid answering to the people at the long scheduled general election. Sahara reporters has given a fairly accurate report on the current meetings going on in Abuja this very day. Why is the pdp so desperate to avoid the election? Surely they have boasted enough, and not for one day has Jonathan persuaded the average Nigerian that fighting boko haram was his top priority, but now it is a very convenient excuse. Jonathan will continue to fail because that is all that is within him. A wretched coward trying to subvert the constitution and the will of the people. He will not succeed. Even if it is six weeks, we will be angrier and more people will see through his shameless posturing. I hope all his pastor supporters are watching events with open eyes. Nigeria is being pushed to the brink of conflict by the ambitions of a rather useless man. We will resist.

#change
#GMB
#APC

This report seem very true, the current events are adding up, the chief of defence staff (Alex badeh) has made a smiling announcement today, so things are adding up, also 16 political parties are supporting the move for postponement

This country is a disappointment.Can somebody teach the government and its agencies time management?

fabraham:
This country is a disappointment.Can somebody teach the government and its agencies time management?

This is beyond time management. This is a blatant and desperate attempt at election rigging.

Hey... We get wedding on 21st next month o

Mr jega abeg o o

all this old ppl dem don try, dey should go and rest......jega ur time don do, come go rest....leave dat office

Elections not to b postponed.

olayincar:
Hey... We get wedding on 21st next month o

Mr jega abeg o o

Move your wedding forward to the 14th of this month.

Sahara Reporters and their war against GEJ will never end even if GEJ leaves office...

Back to election matters;
Council of states met and couldnt reach agreement on this issue. That shows it is a serious matter. INEC should postpone it togive more people chance of voting

SomebodyLovesMe:


You seem convinced that GEJ will win. GEJ's actions show that he thinks otherwise. You watch and see events unfold over the next few weeks.

I'd advice you change your middle name to "siddondeylook". You are embarking on one of the most exciting time in your life.

Saharareporter remains the best investigative journalist in Nigeria, punch newspaper has eating corruption money they are now bias. The pdp!gs can come here and claim that this report is fake.

arsetalks:
My heart bleeds for this country. The most annoying part of this all is that some section of the country who can not think objectively will still continue to support GEJ due to regional sentimentality.

This man is gradually pushing us to another civil war.

You are one of the Problems we have in this country thinking that a certificateless Hausa-Fulani Born-To-Rule brute is an option to GEJ. An Hausa fooolani Gambari is using you southerners. It bleeds my heart that there is a prospect that you are an Igbo

focus7:
Saharareporter remains the best investigative journalist in Nigeria, punch newspaper has eating corruption money they are now bias. The pdp!gs can come here and claim that this report is fake.

Spot on.

.

Jonathan is successfully running down this country and some people are joyfully cheering him on.

Instigating the military to say they want to start boko haram operations 14th of Feb that has been dedicated for elections long before now.

I am hurt, seriously hurt and there is no hiding this. Not because the elections were postponed but because of the future of this country with some deluded, shortsighted greedy youths that are supporting this gross action against the development of democracy. If there is a revolution today, this set of persons will have to go with our leaders if there is to be sanity in this country.

No matter what happens though, I will do my part,correct the mistake of 2011 and vote Buhari. Do the right thing for this country and leave posterity to judge.

I hope and pray for a better Nigeria.

SaiBuhari

The junior officer Corp of the armed forced will be right to obey the unconstitutional acts of this government.

Tranquill:


It is people like you who read pepper soup joint stories like this and believe that should make effort to be objective in your analysis by taking advantage of more reliable, objective and responsible news outlets at your finger tips and not sahara distorters.

It is people like you that wait until trouble begins before you believe and by then it would've been too late.

The principal motives for the postponement
of the election by the PDP cabals and the
viruses within the presidency is to oust out
Jega whose tenure expires in a months
time,so that they ll put their own machinery
as the INEC boss cos Jega to them is anti-
PDP because he sets measures in place that
ll give little or no room to rigging.All those
holding Nigeria to ransome ll soon die a
disastrous death! It is decreed and it shall
come to pass IJN.Amen

jamex93:
all this old ppl dem don try, dey should go and rest......jega ur time don do, come go rest....leave dat office

The sacking of jega will be the greatest undoing to this country. You watch and see.

jorlons:

The sacking of jega will be the greatest undoing to this country. You watch and see.

Absolutely agree.

My advise to our sister country Nigeria, is to shift the date.. to avoid violate in the north.

that way you conduct base on 12 state each weekend for the president election. You go with

northerners are more violate, so you want to conduct their election first..

first week of presidential election... Bauchi, gombe, kaduna, sokoto, kebbi, zamfara,katsina, yobe, borno, jigawa, kano, adamawa

this are the likely violent state. You want to conduct their election first.. to aviod violent at the poll. they are expected to favour buhari.. You want to conduct this state first.

second week of presidential election Plateau, nassarawa, taraba, imo, enugu, abia, ebonyi, anambra,rivers, cross rivers, bayelsa, akwa ibom.