JEGA OF INEC NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH AT EMIR OF KAZAURE'S PALACE

NARROW ESCAPE FOR JEGA FROM EMIRS PALACE

This is the beginning of the fallout from Buhari's vituperative utterance in an attempt to destabilize the country - Kayode

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Mohammed Jega, reportedly escaped death, yesterday,  when some youths attacked him at the palace of the Emir of Kazaure, Alhaji Najib Hussaini Adamu, in Jigawa State.

Jega was said to be  in the town  to attend the wedding of the daughter of  emir. It was gathered that trouble started around 12:30 pm when the INEC boss was coming out  of  the palace and the  youths identified him.

A  young girl allegedly led the attack when she collected  sand  and threw  it at the  vehicle in which  the INEC chairman was riding. Then the youths in hundreds, began to hurl stones at Jega’s convoy. Several  cars in the convoy were said to have been damaged and their glasses smashed.  Sources said the situation would have been worse but for the intervention of security forces. The youths sang war songs alleging betrayal on Jega’s path.

“You cheated us, you cheated the North, you declared false result, you denied General Buhari the chance to be the president of Nigeria, it was injustice, we will not forgive you”, some of them said.

Another drama played out immediately thereafter when retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the Congress of Progressive Change (CPC), arrived the scene.  The youths hailed him, saying he was the answer to Nigerians socio-economic, political, religious and ethnic problems. Contacted, however, the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abdul, Jinjiri denied the attack on Jega.

INEC’s Jega Stoned At Emir Of Kazaure's Palace

EMIR OF KAZAURE 

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Attahiru Jega yesterday beat a hasty retreat from the wedding of the daughter of the Emir of Kazaure as irate youths in the city hurled stones at his car, damaging some vehicles in his convoy.

The youths had converged at the scene of the wedding and were in a celebratory mood when word filtered out that Mr. Jega had quietly arrived at the wedding venue. The youths became restive, and plotted to send a message to Mr. Jega. The INEC chairperson’s luck ran out as he tried to exit the venue of the wedding. Many of the youths hurled stones at Mr. Jega’s convoy, accusing him of rigging the 2011 election in favor of President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Professor Jega managed to escape, but several cars in his convoy were dented and some of the glasses broken,” a source who was at the wedding told SaharaReporters.