{"id":772,"date":"2017-10-29T20:08:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:53:20","slug":"jonathan-meant-well-for-the-democracy-of-nigeria-jega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/29\/jonathan-meant-well-for-the-democracy-of-nigeria-jega\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan meant well for the democracy of Nigeria&#8230;Jega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-774 \" src=\"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/jega.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/jega.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/jega-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/>Attahiru Jega, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says that Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan meant well for the democracy of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Jamie Hitchen, a policy researcher at Africa Research Institute, a not-for-profit group that was founded in 2007, Jega said Jonathan granted all the financial requests of INEC and did not try to personally interfere with the commission\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration of Goodluck Jonathan, president from 2010 to 2015, never gave any reason to suspect that there was a deliberate and wilful attempt to emasculate the funding of INEC\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For this they should be applauded. No situation arose where we had to go cap-in-hand to the executive looking for funding and I must add that when supplementary funding was needed it was nearly always forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor most of the time during our tenure, President Jonathan tried not to personally interfere with the Commission\u2019s work. Only in the run-up to the 2015 election did his government and ruling political party seek to interfere with the decision of INEC to use electronic card readers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were able to remind them that they had supported the idea and funded it. Overall I think that President Jonathan meant well for democracy in our country, a view strengthened by the gracious way he conceded electoral defeat in 2015.\u201d TheCable reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attahiru Jega, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says that Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan meant well for the democracy of Nigeria. In an interview with Jamie Hitchen, a policy researcher at Africa Research Institute, a not-for-profit group that was founded in 2007, Jega said Jonathan granted all the financial requests of INEC and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[103,105,106,104],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-politics","tag-2015-elections","tag-attahiru","tag-inec","tag-jega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}