Jega meets service chiefs, IGP others over polls

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..