Ujujoan:

A bad workman quarells with his tools!

ohisng:

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu has insisted that the electoral body did its best in the conduct of elections under him given the circumstances.

More on: http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2010/apr/08/newsbreak-08-04-2010-001.htm

Afam:

Are you cool with people trying for the sake of it even if any mistake could take 4 years to correct? I think having a system that works regardless of who is in charge is better than allowing people to try.

or once can we reason and stop whinning out of sentiments.
are you telling me that Iwu is so daft to put dowm Micheal jackson, micheal ferguson e.t.c on the voter's register. I witnessed that in Awka personally during the national identity card scheme, people put down fictious names even with (explanation of people around on the importance of the exercise),saying they donot want their names in Nigeria but in Biafra, now if such names are published, will you blame Ministry of Interior Huh
Nigeria are bad losers, our culture of cheat makes all to cheat even where there is good system, what if none of the politician approach INEC for lobby and decide on santity of people vote, will IWU manipulate that. In Abia State, PDP planned all ways to cheat and PPA cheated more than them, and they are calling IWU names.
Is it IWU that is in Abuja that hire thugs, bribes electoral officiers in community wards e.t.c

soyad:

Iwu is a complete diagrace especially to the academia , that he is still in office shows the level of insanity in our land . I dont know how he acquired the capacity for so much evil and he expects Nigerians to stupidly accept his idiotic actions .For the records the Anambra election was the most scientifically rigged election in Nigeria , let no one be decieved , the voters register was manipulated by inec and its collaborators so that APGA can emerge as the winner ,no wonder Ojukwu wants him retained , i am sure one day he will pay for his many sins

doyin13:

Honestly, I thought this was a done deal.

I thought it was the general consensus that
IWU IS INCOMPETENT.

How so quickly, this whole ''the environment is the problem''
or ''the politicians are the problem'' has gained currency
just baffles me.

And it is no surprise that many of his defenders have come
from the Igbo community out of some warped sense of tribal
loyalty.

For God's sake, even the Anambra elections where he beats his
chest disenfranchised a vast section of the voting public. And the
politicians by and large behaved themselves.

His incompetence is compounded by his befuddling obstinacy and
inability to admit he has got it wrong .

Perhaps if he did, he might have corrected some of the many things
they have got wrong over and over again.

doyin13:

Honestly, I thought this was a done deal.

I thought it was the general consensus that
IWU IS INCOMPETENT.

How so quickly, this whole ''the environment is the problem''
or ''the politicians are the problem'' has gained currency
just baffles me.

And it is no surprise that many of his defenders have come
from the Igbo community out of some warped sense of tribal
loyalty.

For God's sake, even the Anambra elections where he beats his
chest disenfranchised a vast section of the voting public. And the
politicians by and large behaved themselves.

His incompetence is compounded by his befuddling obstinacy and
inability to admit he has got it wrong .

Perhaps if he did, he might have corrected some of the many things
they have got wrong over and over again.

doyin13:

Honestly, I thought this was a done deal.

I thought it was the general consensus that
IWU IS INCOMPETENT.

How so quickly, this whole ''the environment is the problem''
or ''the politicians are the problem'' has gained currency
just baffles me.

And it is no surprise that many of his defenders have come
from the Igbo community out of some warped sense of tribal
loyalty.

For God's sake, even the Anambra elections where he beats his
chest disenfranchised a vast section of the voting public. And the
politicians by and large behaved themselves.

His incompetence is compounded by his befuddling obstinacy and
inability to admit he has got it wrong .

Perhaps if he did, he might have corrected some of the many things
they have got wrong over and over again.

mikeansy:

That you suggest the bit in bold also betrays the possibility that you hold opposite view for the same reasons.

If you think people are supporting Iwu because of tribe you are simply telling us you malign him because of his tribe.

If you think people are only supporting him because they have been paid, you only tell us that those of you who oppse him are doing so because those who want his job have paid you too.

If you have the view that people can not hold a political view without being driven by sentiments or interests then you are simply betraying what drives your own thought process.

Let us agree that people can hold various views thats democracy.

Afam:

Classical! Once you cannot use logic to defend a position turn it into a tribal stuff and you are good to go.

Must we turn everything into tribalism or is it impossible to see things without tribal prisms?

mikeansy:

If you have the view that people can not hold a political view without being driven by sentiments or interests then you are simply betraying what drives your own thought process.

doyin13:

Lol. . . .

Perhaps I should mention that I recognise many
of his critics, vocal as well as silent are also Igbo.

So it is not a tribal issue at all.

Besides, I have also held up as a model elsewhere
the performance of Professor Nwosu who is Igbo.

And I have no qualms with Olisa Agbakogba taking
the job, and he also happens to be Igbo.

But it has to be said, the biggest sponsor of this new
Pro-Iwu movement is the Imo state governor and the
proposition that seemed improbable not too long ago
has taken a life of its own.

mikeansy:

The issue is not whether Maurice Iwu is Igbo or not.

The issue is we have just a couple of months to the elections which will be too critical for anybody to learn on the Job.

What I would do if I was Jonathan is to appoint more credible Nigerians as Electoral Commissioners to fill up the body of ECs. There should be about 13 but I think as we speak there are about 4 because Yar'adua has been too ill to do so all this while. With that you mandate them to deliver in 2011 and encourage more organisational decision making process as opposed to one-man-riot sqaud.

If after 2011 we are not satisfied we simply ease out Iwu and appoint a new chaiman from the body of ECs to carry on, just to encourage continuity and improvement.

All this Agbakoba, Anyaoku, Soyinka, bla bla bla. They all sound impressive. But how much can they do in the next few months? The system is more challenging than you think.

Jonathan can do what he likes. But let's just get real.