February 25, 2009
Press Release: The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress has lambasted the highly compromised chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu for saying that no one can sack him after the very dirty and messy job he did with Nigeria’s very disappointing general election in 2007. The party says that for Iwu to think that he would employ all dirty tricks to repeal the general call for his sacking if he hadn’t the least honour to quit is self-deceptive as he would find out in the days to come.In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the AC, Joe Igbokwe, the party says that it amounts to the biggest slight on Nigerians for Iwu to believe that because his being retained as a payback for the dirty and dishonorable job he did that brought about the present dysfunctional system amounts to his invincibility in the job he has desecrated through his corrupt conduct. It warns Iwu that he and those that have prodded him so far are so weak to contain the rising angst of Nigerians and that very soon he would find out that criminals of his hue have limited capacity to endure the angst of Nigerians.
“It is obvious that Iwu has woken from the reverie and false halo he created for himself as he fooled himself when he organized for himself a reception with some of the beneficiaries of his corrupt acts in attendance to lend him false comfort. It is obvious that he is watching as the hefty propaganda he mounted to divest of himself the blame for his inordinate acts in April 2007, collapse like emergency house of cards, which it is in the first instance.
“It is obvious that Iwu’s reckless claim stems from a very corrupt mind that has no strength to admit his inadequacies even when they were intentional acts that satisfied his immediate greed. A professor of nothing like Iwu is living his lowly self by clenching tight to the INEC chairmanship when the entire world has condemned his shoddy conduct. It is obvious that for Iwu, honour holds no candle which is why he is devising so many shameful means of staying put as INEC chairman after the serious indictment he received for the reckless manner he corrupted the country’s electoral process in 2007. It is obvious that Iwu is being urged on by the very system that benefited immensely from his perfidy and has played deaf and dumb to the demand of Nigerians that he should be sacked and tried for electoral and economic crimes against the country. It is certain that he is drawing his present bravado from that same very source and we assure him that Nigeria will disappoint him and his patrons.
“What Maurice Iwu and those prodding him must know is that no law protects criminals and failures. To deal with such characters has not presented any problem to Nigerians. It may present a problem to the Yar’Adua government that is playing hide-and-seek with electoral reform and the need to do away with the process that has ensured that Iwu stays on after the general scam of April 2007.
“Lagos AC and indeed other Nigerians, except the few that got unduly favoured by Iwu’s sleight of hand, see in the conduct of Iwu the actions of a terribly unsettled mind, a chronic racketeer and a shameless and unstable character that believes wrongly that he is indispensable even after committing heinous crimes against Nigerians. We see in him a man that believes he can take refuge in the imperfections of the polity to continue infesting the polity with his scandalous effusions. We see in him a sinking man, thoroughly indicted by his actions and deeds and uncertain of the future and we see his acted bravado as just a way of letting off the gathering storm. As one of his tardy job falls after the other in the tribunals, the man shamelessly concocts laughable reasons to take the blames he willingly merits elsewhere but not to him and his co-scammers that rubbished the electoral process in 2007.
“That Maurice Iwu must go is a foregone conclusion and the earlier he understands that he has come to the end of the road, the better for him. Since he has no little moral capital to quit after a grand failure, Nigerians are ever ready to throw him to the dustbin where he belongs. We assure him that those that prod him to continue sitting pretty on a job he has demeaned and brought to odium are too weak to resist the anger of Nigerians. We shall prove this fact to him if he still refuses to voluntarily throw in the towel.”
Joe Igbokwe.
Publicity Secretary,
Lagos AC.
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