Federal Government through its
Minister of Culture and Tourism and the Supervising Minister of Information,
Chief Edem Duke, has debunked rumors making the round that it has plans to sack
the INEC boss, illegally.
Speaking during his median
meeting with information correspondents at Radio House, Abuja, he said:
“I align myself with Mr.
President that he has no plan to sack the INEC chairman. President Jonathan
reaffirmed the confidence reposed on the INEC chairman and reiterated that the
administration has no plan whatsoever to send the electoral umpire illegally
packing. But nothing would debar the INEC boss from proceeding on retirement
when the need arises, in line with the civil service rule and as enshrined in
the constitution.’’
‘Those who are competing
for offices in the course of these elections are the ones feeding social media
with propaganda because they have no records to back their aspiration; they had
spent a lot of resources, time and ingenuity building social media propaganda
so that by the time campaign commenced, they were ready with propaganda against
government in power.
“They embark on massive
publicity campaign, recruit electoral PR companies to sell products that do not
exist and these are thrown to the public during election. But we must realize
that truth struck a thousand times will always rise again because the eternal
age of time belongs to truth.
“You can’t use social media to
say 14 new universities were not build, import bill has not dropped with
marshal plan for agricultural revolution. You cannot use the social media to
blindfold Nigerians that government has not build over 125 Almajiri schools or
that 22 airports were not remodeled or five new international airports are not
being built. You can’t say Nigeria is not the biggest economy in Africa and
that inflation is not at single digit with a growth rate that has positioned
Nigeria as one of the six fastest growing economies in the world,” he further
said.
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