Maurice Iwu Must Go Now!  
December 20, 2007 | 15 Comments
If we don’t do away with Iwu in our public arena and let him be HEARD NO MORE, someone will wake up tomorrow to tell us that Iwu is a hero. At that time, the likes of Babangida, Obasanjo and Atiku would have become saints and ordinary Nigerians would have been totally converted to their footstools. Iwu must go now!

The Trial Of Olusegun Obasanjo - Reuben Abati  
March 22, 2008 | 6 Comments
THE on-going House of Representatives probe of expenditures in the power sector during the Obasanjo years has so far resulted in mind-boggling revelations about the abuse of due process, award of contracts to non-existing companies; the use of illegal Special Purpose Vehicles, misappropriation of public funds, and a gross failure of leadership. Reading the reports of the testimonies before the House of Reps Committee on Power, or watching the proceedings on television, many Nigerians cringe...

Reasons Why Maurice Iwu Must Stay  
March 14, 2009 | 4 Comments
When third term failed, grand Nigerian conspiracies were unleashed on INEC to intimidate it away from carrying through with the elections. Recall that vast numbers of prominent Nigerian politicians were calling for interim national government, meaning that they did not want the elections to hold, mostly because they figured they were sure to lose. Some analysts have charged that the call for interim national government was also clever cover for the secret desire for the military to come...

Well Done Maurice Iwu, Away With Foreign Election Observers And Their String-laden Euros  
December 23, 2007 | 3 Comments
And after Iwu’s presentations, I couldn’t help but think of what is now happening with our local government elections sans Iwu and wondered why some of us cannot see the glaring point that Nigeria’s teething pains with her elections are less of the making of Maurice Iwu or one man alone but more of an institutional immaturity on the part of Nigeria as a young, and an inexperienced democracy to boot

April Polls: How Intelligence Report Jolted FG - The Independent  
August 5, 2007 | 3 Comments
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is ready to release what a source has described as a damning report on the conduct of the 2007 general election. The report when released may address all issues raised in an intelligence document now at the disposal of the government, which indicted former President Olusegun Obasanjo, his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, and the INEC chairman, Maurice Iwu, over the conduct of the April polls

WHAT THEY Didn’t TELL YOU ABOUT THE 2007 ELECTIONS  
March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments
The presidential poll is the mother of all the polls INEC conducted in 2007. Thus any ruling upholding the results thereof makes it extremely harder to continue to fault Maurice Iwu for anything

Election Tribunals And The Survival Of Nigerian Democracy  
March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments
THE electoral process of the Third Republic ended in the fiasco of the annulment of the June 12 Presidential Election by Babangida’s Military Government. As for the present republic, i.e. the Fourth Republic, the 2003 and 2007 elections have remained the sort of stuff that legends are made of. I shall simply summarize what happened in 2003, in the words of Justice Nsofor of the Court of Appeal as stated in his judgment at the Tribunal for, the Presidential Elections. (Buhari v. Obasanjo...

Some Quick Thoughts On Multi-Partyism & Electoral Reform In Nigeria (by Bolaji Aluko)  
December 22, 2007 | 2 Comments
Should there be re-imposed a two-party system a la Babangida of the SDP/NRC "a little to the left, a little to the right" fame - as recently being canvassed again by the man himself (see attached) - rather than the present apparently unwieldy 50-party system a la Obasanjo/Iwu?

HRW Report: Criminal Politics - Violence, `Godfathers` And Corruption In Nigeria  
October 9, 2007 | 2 Comments
Nigeria is mired in a crisis of governance. Eight years since the end of military rule, the country’s longest-ever stretch of uninterrupted civilian government, the conduct of many public officials and government institutions is so pervasively marked by violence and corruption as to more resemble criminal activity than democratic governance.

Fixing Nigeria`s Divisive Poll - Vincent Obia  
May 13, 2007 | 2 Comments
Nigeria has only one instance of judicial overturn of a governorship poll, and no experience of cancellation of a presidential election.....Generally, Nigeria has a limited experience of general elections results overturned on account of election petitions. ....For the tribunal members, who are living witnesses to the tension all around, many believe, relapsing to extra-judicial pursuits is not an easy option. Bungling the new-found public confidence in the judiciary...