Jonathan can sack Jega, nothing will happen – Fayose

When you allow impunity go unchallenged for too long, it becomes proud. Governor Ayo Fayose used about seven men in the Ekiti State house of assembly to sack the speaker and majority of the lawmakers, yet nothing has thus far happened to him and the few men he used.

Now, the same Governor Fayose has declared that President Goodluck Jonathan has the prerogative power to ask the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega to proceed on terminal leave and nothing will happen.

But Jega is not a civil servant and there is no room for terminal leave for a five-year appointment.

Fayose boasted that the complains of APC and other well meaning Nigerians are mere noise.

According to a statement issued in Ado Ekiti yesterday and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said that “removal of Jega and any other appointee of the Federal Government was a prerogative of the president, which no one can question, provided laid down rules are followed.”

“President Goodluck Jonathan can sack Jega if he wishes and if he does, heavens will not fall…It is on record that Prof Maurice Iwu was asked to proceed on terminal leave two months to the end of his tenure. Is Jega not a beneficiary of Iwu’s removal? So if Iwu was asked to go on terminal leave before the expiration of his tenure for Jega to assume office, what difference does it make if Jega too is asked to proceed on terminal leave before the expiration of his tenure?” he said.