If Jega goes, heavens won’t fall –Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said President Goodluck Jonathan can sack the Chairman of In­dependent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, if he wishes, saying if he does, heavens will not fall.
Fayose described the out­bursts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the possi­ble removal of the INEC chair­man as mere comedy.
The governor, who said the APC should stop acting as if Nigeria belonged to the party, added: “By turning themselves to advocates and defenders of the INEC chairman, the APC and its agents have shown that they have a deal with Jega to manipulate the elections and that the deal will be frustrated if he is asked to leave office.”
Governor Fayose said in a release issued on yesterday and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, that: “Removal of Jega and any other appointee of the Federal Government is a prerogative of the president, which no one can question, provided laid down rules are followed.” He said the position expressed by the House of Representatives was that of the APC members in the House, urging that: “The APC lawmak­ers should rather pay attention to the ill-health of their party’s presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, whose whereabouts is now a mystery.”
The governor described Jega as partisan, saying: “By his ac­tions and utterances, Jega had already demonstrated his bias in support of the APC. For in­stance, how can Jega explain the 80 percent distribution of permanent voters’ cards (PVCs) in Boko Haram ravaged Borno and Yobe States, while less than 40 percent was distributed in Lagos State as at February 7 that the election was postponed?”