The group vented it spleen following the query the chairman of INEC reportedly issued to mostly southern residential electoral commissioners over his botched attempt to create lopsided 30,000 new polling units.
In a statement signed by the group National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, the reported query was described as one 'dripping with venom' and it was issued with sectional focus.
"The query dripping with venom was issued the very day Jega announced the suspension of the controversial exercise.
"If it was true that the said query was issued on sectional focus on matter in which the INEC chairman betrayed unpardonable primordial insensitivity , we are bound to conclude that Prof Jega is becoming more dreadful to the health of the polity than the murderous Boko Haram.
"Even without its lopsidednes in favour of Jega's region of the country, the whole idea of creating new polling units a few months to election was a product of inferior scholarship on election for a man from intellectual region hailed across the country in 2010 as a "man of integrity" when he was nominated for the job in 2010.
"It is equally baffling that rather than addressing the glaring incompetences of INEC which have seen it bungling the distribution of PVCs for data captured four years ago, Jega would now be occupied with fighting a war of attrition within the commission.
"We are less than 90 days to the general elections and we have yet to see concrete preparations from the electoral body to conduct a successful poll.
"Given the importance of 2015 and all the predictions of the implications it holds for the corporate existence of Nigeria, we do not need a champion of fault lines at the head of the electoral commission.
"In the light of this, Afenifere advises Jega to withdraw the query immediately and concentrate on plans for the elections.
However if he is far too gone into his sectional agenda, he should step aside from INEC and move over to any of the fora promoting what he desires." The statement read in full.
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