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The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties has condemned the presence
of the chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission at
the voter’s registration of the president in his hometown on Saturday.
The party, in a statement on Sunday, expressed its outrage at the
presence of the INEC boss Attahiru Jega, accompanying the president,
Goodluck Jonathan, during the latter’s voter registration at his
hometown Otuoke, Bayelsa State on Saturday.

The CNPP called on the
electoral umpire to ignore the style of followership practised by his
predecessor in office, calling on him to “wake-up, abandon the ignoble
cult followership, which converted former Independent National
Electoral Commission’s chairmen into puppets of former president, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo and be on top of his duty post as an impartial
umpire.” “We had expected Professor Jega to be on top of his duty post
at INEC Headquarters Abuja; receiving reports of non-arrival and
late-arrival of officials and materials and the worrisome report of
malfunctioning DDC Machines, which has become the metaphor the
exercise,” the party said. The CNPP warned that “Nigerians do not want
the extension of the voters registration exercise under any guise.”