Read Prof. Jega's epic response to Orubebe this morning
Jega's response to Orubebe has been hailed as mature. In fact, there's a meaning for 'Jega' now. It means 'To be inexplicably chilled in the midst of stupidity or conflict". lol. Prof Jega's full response after the cut"Mr Orubebe, you are a former Minister of the federal republic .You are a statesman in your own right. You should be careful about what you say or what allegations or accusations you make. Certainly you should be careful about your public conduct"
"You have made two comments. One is that you submitted a petition
which I refused to accept. Secondly you claimed that there was a result
released by the APC which you alleged that we gave to them or I gave to
them. With regards to the first point, yesterday after we took the
first batch of results in this hall and as we declared a recess until 4pm,
as I was walking down back to the office, my PA came to me and said
that here are some papers that Dr Bello Fadile, a representative of the
PDP said that he should collect it; that I said Dr Fadile should give
him those papers. I told him that I didn't tell Dr Fadile to give any
papers to you. Return them to him because Dr Fadile, after we declared
for recess came on to this platform. As a party agent, he is not
supposed to do that and gave some documents to my PA who is writing
results here. and I am sure some of the agents and some of the pressmen
may have seen that and I told my PA to take back those documents to him.
If he told you I told him to give you any documents, I did not. Take
them back to him, Subsequently, Dr Fadile sent me a text message saying
that there are petitions and that he wants to submit them. I told him we
don't collect petitions on the platform when we are declaring results
and then he said I should have left my office open so that they can
submit those petitions in my office. I told him our secretary, the
secretary to the commission is not anywhere in this hall. She is in her
office and that her business is to receive communication. If they are
important enough, she would bring them to me here. I have started
collation. I cannot be receiving petition in this hall or in this
platform. And when I replied that text message, he replied again and
said Okay, he will see what he can do. I interpreted the text as he was
going to take that petition or whatever document he has to the secretary
of the commission. As I speak with you now, I have not received
anything from the secretary to the commission. That is regards to the
issue of the so called petition.
Regarding
results published by APC on its website, I do not give results to
anybody. The results were announced formally as INEC are results
declared here. And we have warned everybody to be careful and to ensure
that the do not declare results which we have not officially announced.
So as far as I am concerned I have not seen any results. I have not
given anybody any results. So for you to even engage me on that issue I
think frankly that is not fair to me. I have not seen the results. How
can I speak on something that I have not seen. So please let us be
careful of what we say or do so that we do not disrupt a process that
has ended peacefully and in a matter of hours we would be able to finish
it.". Jega said
