January 13, 2009
Former Senate President Ken Nnamani has further taken Maurice Iwu, the Chairman of Independent National electoral Commission to the cleaners.Nnamani in a statement on Tuesday described the 2007 polls as the most incompetent ,banal and criminal election in Nigerian history.
Nnamani was apparently reacting to a statement from INEC which reportedly accused him of turning against Iwu after his allegedly failed attempts to influence INEC to postpone the 2007 polls so that he (Nnamani) could have emerged as interim PresideNt after President Olusegun Obasanjo`s tenure expired in 2007.
The former senate president`s statement last night in reaction to INEC`s allegation read thus: “My attention has been drawn to a statement by Mr. Andy Ezeani, the Chair Press Secretary to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on behalf of the Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu, that I criticized the Chairman of the Commission because he (Chairman) turned down my request that the 2007 elections be postponed so that I can exploit the constitutional crisis that will ensue from such postponement to become ING president.
“This statement is simply fiction. It does not stand the scrutiny of facts and logics. It is a product of a fevered imagination of a man who has set himself on a course against his country. There is no Constitutional provision for an Interim National Government (ING).
Nnamani was apparently reacting to a statement from INEC which reportedly accused him of turning against Iwu after his allegedly failed attempts to influence INEC to postpone the 2007 polls so that he (Nnamani) could have emerged as interim PresideNt after President Olusegun Obasanjo`s tenure expired in 2007.
The former senate president`s statement last night in reaction to INEC`s allegation read thus: “My attention has been drawn to a statement by Mr. Andy Ezeani, the Chair Press Secretary to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on behalf of the Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu, that I criticized the Chairman of the Commission because he (Chairman) turned down my request that the 2007 elections be postponed so that I can exploit the constitutional crisis that will ensue from such postponement to become ING president.
“This statement is simply fiction. It does not stand the scrutiny of facts and logics. It is a product of a fevered imagination of a man who has set himself on a course against his country. There is no Constitutional provision for an Interim National Government (ING).
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