Rigging without Conscience.
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of INEC, is an intellectual error and a colossal waste to academia. When this episode finally comes to an end, history will record him as the dubious Professor who wrote the final chapter of Nigeria's descent into the abyss as a nation-state. Here is a guy with a First-Class Bachelor's Degree in History from the University of Sokoto, a Graduate-level Degree from Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Oxford - a superlative CV that could land him any teaching or consulting job anywhere in the whole world.
Yet, when the whole wide world was watching, expecting him to live up to the standard expected of a learned Professor of his calibre or reputation, and restore dignity to the Nigerian electoral process, he emerged as a willing enabler of the worst in us as a cursed society. He was expected to act above board and dare the fraudulent money bags to a fight. He floundered woefully. He is indeed a Compromiser-In-Chief.
But for his tacit endorsement of the manufactured crisis, the SARS, the Armed Military Personnel and members of the Nigerian Police Force would not have been so egregious and daring in their well-choreographed crusade to rig President Buhari back into power.
That he was not even aware of the fact that the figures he broadcast to the whole world didn't add up shows the scale of his disguised incompetence and disconnect. This is more than greed. He is a disgrace, an intellectual fraud, and a coward. He was more of a player than an umpire. What took place in Lagos, Kano, Katsina, Enugu, Borno, Gombe, and Rivers States is a mockery of the electoral process.
The truth is, Mahmood Yakubu didn't know that Nigerians can read the fine print. Even if he did, he didn't expect us to dissect the fine print and make a credible deduction or meaning out of the farce he fed the whole world as an election result. And that is the ridiculousness of Chairman Yakubu and his INEC Rigging Team.
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