President of Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria (NCSN) Chief Udo Udeogaranya has called on President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly to order an immediate sack of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Athahiru Jega.

The group said its call became necessary to forestall a situation whereby Nigeria is plunged into political crisis that will ultimately implode the country.

NCSN in a statement yesterday accused Jega of creating additional polling units (PU) that was primarily designed to make Northerners kingmakers in Nigeria’s presidential elections.

It alleged that the INEC boss was plotting the same old colonial masters grand plan of upgrading minority into majority and degrading majority into minority.

Continuing, the statement said “In the 1959 election, that preceded independence, Azikiwe’s party NCNC which was predominant in the South with a few supporters in the North, scored a total of 2,594,577 votes to capture a mere 94 seats in the Federal House, while the Ahmadu Bello’s Party NPC scored a total of 1,992,179 votes to capture a huge total of 142 seats in the House, almost twice of that of Azikiwe with a far less votes.

“Under the grand plan, 2,594,577 of mainly Southern votes had only 94 seats, while 1,992,179 of mainly Northern votes got 142 seats and thereby giving the North the right to choose prime minister in the parliament.”

The group leader accused the colonial masters of giving the North far more constituencies than the South, even when the North has far less voting population against the Southern Nigeria.

It added that: “In the same vein, Prof. Attahiru Jega in his creation of new polling units, is attempting to give the North a far more polling units than the North’s voting population, so that the Northern politicians can exaggerate their voting results to tantamount with the voting strength of these new polling units.

“Prof. Jega is attempting to give to the North that has already been deserted by insurgency the power to determine who becomes president against the South with exponential increase in numbers as many northerners are relocating to the South.”

Udeogaranya vowed that “Ndigbo will resist this new unwarranted policy of electoral fraud that is totally undemocratic.

“There are no indications that warrant any creation of polling units anywhere and elections were held successfully in Ekiti and Osun States without agitations of disenfranchisement”.