No one is surprised that the re-runs in Ekiti and Oyo States were marred by irregularities, violence, incompetence and gross partisanship on the part of Iwu’s INEC. We have made the point over and over again that Professor Iwu is morally incapable of conducting a free and fair election anywhere. The fact that INEC cannot organise credible elections at the ward level now shows conclusively that INEC under Iwu is a clear and scary danger to democracy and the rule of law, which is why it is eternally such a wonder that President Yar Adua who claims to uphold the rule of law cannot see the retention of Iwu at the top of INEC as an incongruity.
If the President does not request the Senate to remove Iwu in the next few days as a demonstration of his aversion to the evil ways of INEC, every decent fellow would be justified to conclude that the President is a hypocrite. Removal of Iwu and the disbandment of INEC, even without more, are tantamount to consolidation of democracy. Ordinarily, this would have been regarded as an extremely reductive view. But that is to show how dangerous Iwu and his INEC have become to our democratic project. INEC is now the fulcrum of the axis of evil in our nation. To exorcise the axis we have to dismantle INEC as constituted, anyway, anyhow, but now.
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