Ghana Elections And Prof Yakubu’s Sham Claims

 By Ochereome Nnanna

There is something we call omehaa kachie enya in my Abiriba dialect of Igbo. It means a shameless or defiant offender. When a person is caught red-handed while committing an abomination, he is supposed to show remorse or contrition.

*Yakubu
But if such a person adopts a bold face, displays impertinence and opts to brazen it out, that person is beyond redemption. In ancient times, society had ways of quietly getting rid of such people to create deterrence and prevent them from corrupting the rest of the community.

Nigeria: INEC And Burden Of Neutrality

 By Carl Umegboro

Recently, the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu reiterated his commitment to give the country a credible, free-and-fair elections in the forthcoming polls, and emphatically assured of neutrality to all the political parties. However, the pledge is not different from all the ones made during the previous elections that were marred by intimidations and bias.

INEC Chairman, Yakubu 

 

Most of the time, people talk the talk but renege to walk the talk. For instance, the crisis rocking the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presently is traceable to infidelity, repudiating pledges and agreements. So, it is becoming a ‘model’ in the political terrain that words and pledges do not matter. To some politicians, integrity means nothing, and that has been the root-cause of the country’s problems.