After PDP party agent Godsday
Orubebe created an embarrassing scene at the collation centre in Abuja this
morning, trying to disrupt announcement of results a very calm Jega told him;
"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
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