INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega
Chairman
of the Independent National Electoral Committee, Prof Attahiru Jega, on
Saturday, had a closed-door meeting with the National Peace Committee
for 2015 General Elections chaired by General Abdulsalami Abubakar
(retd) over the elections.
Others who attended the meeting were the
service chiefs including the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshal
Alex Badeh; the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, and
leadership of the major political parties.
The meeting also had in attendance the
Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Sa’ad Abubakar 111; Catholic Archbishop
of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan ; Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese,
Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah; former Chief of General Staff, Commodore
Ebitu Ukiwe; Special Adviser to the President on Inter- Party Relations,
Senator Ben Obi.
Jega and the security chiefs left the meeting after a break but refused to disclose to journalists the outcome of the meeting.
When the meeting came to a final close, General Abubakar also refused to address the media.
But a former Chief Judge of the Federal
High Court, Justice Rose Ukeje told journalists on Saturday night that
both INEC and the security agencies had re-affirmed their commitment to
conduct the elections as scheduled.
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