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"
Jega's response to Orubebe has been hailed as mature and
worthy of praise.
"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.
