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.