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Sir, the attack on the convoy of the Chairman of Independent National Electoral
Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega while emerging from the palace of Emir of
Kazaure, Alhaji Najib Hussaini Adamu in Jigawa State is unwarranted. One now
questions when it has become a crime to attend or honour wedding invitation of
an Emir whose daughter is being wedded.  

Reports said that trouble started around 12:30 pm when the INEC chairman
emerged from the Emir’s palace and was identified by the youths who have
gathered at the place to witness the ceremony, where upon “a young girl
allegedly led the attack when she collected  sand  and threw  it at the  vehicle
in which  the INEC chairman was riding@”.

According to Sunday Vanguard, the youths “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”.

For me this is not the best way to express one’s anger or protest for alleged
election rigging as according to the youths and as reported in the Sunday
Vanguard of May 20, 2012: “You cheated us, you cheated the North, you
declared falsed 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.
2015 is not too far a period, these youth should have waited till 2015 to
massively vote for Buhari that is if he clinches his party’s ticket to run for the
highest office in the land rather than attacking Prof. Jega.

Needless to say that this shameful act is the aftermath of the alleged
inflammatory and inciting remarks made by Buhari who has been belligerent,
frustrated and angry for not being able to occupy Aso Rock, having contested
four times for the seat and failed.

If I were Buhari, I would have invested energy, time and money in more useful
ventures than to continue to waste huge amount of money that would have
impacted positively on the lives of his numerous supporters rather than chasing
the wind. He should borrow a leaf from the likes of the Dangote’s, as his past
records which are negative do not speak well of him. It can only be imagined
what Nigerians can benefit from a coup plotter and executioner, anti-journalists,
regionalist, non-conformist, alleged advocate of the sharialization of Nigeria etc.
Let it be known that Buhari will be a hard Presidential aspirant to market to
Nigerian electorates as he is being pursued by karma every step of the way in
his bid to be president of Nigeria.

The attack on Jega should not be treated with kid’s glove as it is an indication of
the alleged potency of Buhari’s remarks in the minds of his supporters.  

Nwaorgu Faustinus writes from Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
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By Nwaorgu Faustinus
Tuesday,  May  22,  2012
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