The attention of Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organization has been drawn to a letter of apology widely reported in the media and advertised by one Prince Reginald Obi of Ohaneze Youths Movement in Leadership Newspaper of Monday May 21st 2007, in which the INEC chairman and his Commissioner in-charge of information, Barrister Philip Umeadi were associated with the sponsorship of media attacks and rallies by Ohaneze Ndigbo Youths  against  Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in the recent past and the current attacks against the Senate President, Rt. Hon Ken Nnamani.

Professor Maurice Iwu, it would be recalled had out of sheer exuberance called Vice-President Atiku Abubakar “a frustrated politician” before the elections. Iwu had in another event asked whether the political parties angling to take over power from the PDP had shown how they would continue the reform programme of the Obasanjo government. Chairman Iwu also made attempts to deny the legality of Action Congress at inception when he said that, “Action Congress was not a registered party.”

These conducts and utterances of Professor Iwu cannot be said in all sense of modesty and honesty to be befitting of a supposed unbiased umpire saddled with enormous challenges as organizing credible national elections. He exposed himself to a great extent as an intellectual ordinary man who was promoted to a level of incompetence.  

It is now glaring that Iwu worked hard to undermine the elections by his own hands because he spent most of his time and the resources of the commission to sponsoring illegal and clandestine groups against the political opponents of his paymasters.

 Surely, time will tell, of the amount of atrocities Professors Iwu may have committed to ensure that the elections ended as a sham they have come to be; including the alleged attempts at bombing the INEC headquarters on the eve of the governorship elections.

The Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organization is of the opinion that, in the interest of  Nigeria’s democracy that Professor Maurice Iwu be advised to desist from childish, uncultured, clannish and ungodly antics that do not befit his age ,faith and learning.

The Igbo youth are expected to derive a better sense of direction and belonging from one of their own, like Maurice Iwu, a Professor, who is occupying a public office as high as the head of a national electoral body like INEC; instead of using public funds to corrupt innocent youths who ought to be groomed for future leadership challenges like their peers from other parts of the country.