Ekiti state governor and Goodluck Jonathan‘s homeboy, Ayo Fayose
said his boss can sack INEC chairman and nothing will happen.
Fayose said GEJ would not face any consequences for sacking Jega
despite widespread outrage at the calls for his removal.
Ayo Fayose made this comments via a statement released by his media
aide, Lere Olayinka on Wednesday, March 4, 2015.
Read what he said below:
“It is on record that Prof Maurice Iwu was asked to proceed on terminal
leave two months to the end of his tenure? Is Jega not a beneficiary of
Iwu’s removal? So if Iwu was asked to go on terminal leave before the
expiration of his tenure for Jega to assume office, what difference does
it make if Jega too is asked to proceed on terminal leave before the
expiration of his tenure?”
“It is the president that can determine whether or not Jega will go on
the mandatory three months terminal leave which should commence on
March 8, and if the president decides that the INEC chairman should go
on terminal leave, what can the APC loudmouths do?”
“They boasted before the postponement of the elections that they
would go on street protests, but did they do anything? They made
noise when Justice Isa Ayo Salami was removed from office as
president of the Court of Appeal, what did their noise amount to?”
“Therefore, let me say it categorically that the noise being made by the
APC and their agents will amount to nothing because if the president
removes Jega today, heavens will not fall.”