{"id":730003,"date":"2019-10-23T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/23\/nigeria-may-disintegrate-according-to-cia-prediction-if-care-isnt-taken-jega\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T19:32:08","slug":"nigeria-may-disintegrate-according-to-cia-prediction-if-care-isnt-taken-jega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/23\/nigeria-may-disintegrate-according-to-cia-prediction-if-care-isnt-taken-jega\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria May Disintegrate According To CIA Prediction, If Care Isn&#8217;t Taken: Jega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_289406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289406\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-289406\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Prof.-Attahiru-Jega.jpg\" alt=\"Attahiru Jega\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-289406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attahiru Jega<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Attahiru Jega, a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said the prediction of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on the disintegration of Nigeria will come to pass, if care isn\u2019t taken.<\/p>\n<p>The former INEC boss said this on Wednesday while speaking at Tell Magazine\u2019s 20 years of democracy conference in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that just before the 2015 election, the CIA had predicted that Nigeria would disintegrate.<\/p>\n<p>Jega noted that Nigeria had experienced some \u201creversals\u201d in the progress it made during the 2015 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CIA thought that 2015 was the do or die period for Nigeria, that there would not be a Nigeria in the way you know after the 2015 general election \u2013 that has come to pass, but I think if we do not take care, a lot of these predictions will come to pass that is why we need to do quite a lot, much more than we have ever done in order to protect the integrity of the electoral process before 2023,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a02023: Former INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega Confirms Joining PRP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clearest evidence of this loss of trust and confidence is declining voter turnout in elections since 1999,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, people have argued that in 2015 the generalised insecurity was a result of the activities of Boko Haram have been responsible for the low voter turnout regardless of the improvement in the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe postponement of elections both in 2015 and 2019 may be some explanations as to why there was voter turnout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attahiru Jega Attahiru Jega, a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said the prediction of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on the disintegration of Nigeria will come to pass, if care isn\u2019t taken. 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