Anti-Jega protest planned for Lagos on Monday

Two weeks to the March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections, some groups, including the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), plan to hold a massive protest in Lagos on Monday against the continued stay in office of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega.



Already, similar protests which rocked Rivers, Delta and all five South East states, on Friday, were staged by hundreds of persons who claimed to be members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

The planned protest in Lagos, it was gathered, is being carefully organised to achieve maximum impact against certain decisions of INEC on the coming polls.

It was not clear on Friday who is financing the demonstrations, but some of the organisers, including OPC’s national coordinator, Chief Gani Adams, who confirmed the plan to Saturday Tribune on Friday, are supporters of the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The different groups behind the plan have since begun to mobilise their members to turn up for  the protest which, according to the organisers, will “shake  the entire South-West.”

Chief Adams, while  confirming the participation of his group in the planned protest, however, pointed out that it is not being organised solely by his group but by a coalition of concerned Nigerians who have no confidence in Jega continuing as the chairman of INEC.

Adams, while reeling out Jega’s alleged sins, wondered why the war-ridden north-eastern part of Nigeria would get more Permanent Voters Cards than other regions.

He also questioned the insistence of Jega to conduct elections in  the over 30,000 new polling centres “despite the criticisms and rejection of same by a majority of Nigerians.”