YAKUBU MAHMUD: IT IS TIME TO BOW OUT.

Considering the feats recorded by INEC under the leadership of Professor Attahiru Jega, Nigerians are expecting days that elections will be without litigation. But it seems Jega's legacy left INEC with him. Jega enjoyed independence as leader of INEC with support of the former President Jonathan who refused to interfere.

Surprisingly, INEC under this current dispensation of CHANGE has become a serious concern for all lovers of democracy. Its outings under Prof Yakubu has been inconclusive back-to-back with many wondering what has bedevilled INEC for such poor performances.

We don't need any rocket scientist to discern the root cause of these happenings, the political intolerance of government that pride itself with CHANGE MANTRA is the cog in the wheel of our electoral system. Except the President want to pretend is not aware of his party infiltration and interference with INEC. What happened in Kogi that turned it to Confluence of Confusion has no place in the constitution. For a living man to inherit a dead man's votes and later became Governor without a Deputy is a SHAM.

It took INEC about 40days to conclude governorship election in Bayelsa of just 8LGAs. Apart from conducting rerun twice in Rivers State, INEC has turned out to be JAMB and WAEC that usually withhold results.

Surprisingly, INEC is now a law unto itself as many rerun elections are now beyond electoral acts stipulated schedules dates.

Continuing with INEC in this manner will not be different from sleeping under a burning roof. It is high time Buhari and his co-travellers stopped desecrating established institutions on the altar of politics. In his(Buhari) word at the last NEC meeting of his party, APC, he is only ready to do things lawfully by the next general election without considering Edo, Ondo, Anambra, Osun and Ekiti guber polls that will come earlier than 2019.

As for Professor Yakubu Mahmud, it is better to quit now than later. Evidences have shown that he is malleable and only ready to support his paymaster.

INEC! INEC!! INEC!!! why taking hundred steps backward? If the last presidential election had been declared inconclusive would there have been a Buhari as President?

Please let us save our nation from ineptitude and winner-take-it-all attitude of the current ruling party by always asking them to do things within the ambit of law.

Happy Easter to you all.


Ifedayo Obi,
(A member of Shadow Cabinet of Nigeria and Pioneer of Good Governance Advocates)
@ShadowCabinetNG, @IfedayoObi