₦airaland Forum

Who would you prefer or who did the best job among these past and present umpires in Nigeria.

1 Professor Humphrey Nwosu (born 2 October 1941) was chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON) appointed by President Ibrahim Babangida, holding office from 1989 to 1993.
He presided over what's still regarded the best election held in Nigeria's history in 1993. However, he chose to stop the announcement of result at the last minute and kept mute from 1993 till after 15 years when he published a book in which he claimed that Babangida was not to blame for annulling the election.
We need to ask him the devil that made him stop announcement, since it wasn't Babangida.

2. Justice Ephraim Omorose Ibukun Akpata a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria as at then. He supervised the 1998/1999 elections. The election produced Tinubu asaaju Gov of Lagos, Atiku as Governor elect of Adamawa, before moving bro be OBJ's Deputy. Same election produced OUK, Odili, Ibori, OBJ etc. He died shortly afterwards. Not sure if this election was rigged

3 Sir Abel Guobadia OFR took charge of INEC after Justice Akpata died. He supervised the 2003 that ensured a Tsunami that swept all AD governors in the SW, in which only Tinubu survived. OBJ won second term and Buhari contested with Chuba Oladigbo. This election produced Saraki as Governor. The result was challenged in court by Buhari. This' election was rigged.
Sir Guobadia is also dead now

4. Emperor Maurice Mmaduakolam Iwu a Professor of Pharmacognosy was appointed by OBJ. He supervised the 2007 election, the worst in our history till date. No single breakdown of state results, all we know is that Yar adua won the election with Jonathan. Buhari and Atiku also contested and challenged the result at the supreme Court along with Buhari.

5. Attahiru Muhammadu Jega replaced the calamity Maurice Iwu. He's the only man to have supervised 2 elections. 2011 and 2015. He was in charge of the 2011 election which Jonathan won. Buhari contested the result as rigged and there's violence after the election. Jonathan retained Jega, may be for doing a good job in 2011 and he supervised the 2015 election in which Jonathan lost to Buhari.
Did Jega rig both or either of the 2011 and 2015 elections?

6. Mahmood Yakubu, is the man of the moment. He replaced Jega and just today 27/2/2019 handed over certificate of return to President elect Buhari.
Was the 2019 election rigged?

Over to you Nairalanders. Who's the best and who should oversee a rerun assuming the court says there should be?

Best was Jega

Worst was maurice Iwuruwuru

D first is d best while d last is d worst.

If we are honest , the current Inec chairman is the best. I remember how previous elections are conducted in Nigeria. There was never a record of pvc collected so it was so easy to manipulate using number of registered voters wether dead or alive. But now with the card reader it’s was more difficult to manipulate. Like rivers state has over one million pvc collected yet only a handful came out to vote. If it was in the past, it won’t matter , you will just see results. And that’s why it seems apc and pdp went head to head in the south west. It was too difficult for Tinubu to rig. Or how do you explain Saraki’s loss in Kwara. He would have bought the empty slots.akpabio tried same in Akwa Ibom but it wasn’t possible . If we are honest enough, we will know that Buhari worn fair and square

Best is Humphrey nwosu worst is iwu.

senatordave1:
Best is Humphrey nwosu worst is iwu.

I disagree on Nwosu. Who told him to stop the announcement in 1993? He hasn't told us till date