Their Lordships found that where INEC had not perpetuated fraud, it connived with electoral crooks to subvert the peoples will or, as in the cases of Kogi and Adamawa gubernatorial elections, it deliberately excluded qualified candidates.

Doubtlessly, as ordered by the Tribunals, fresh elections will be conducted in some of these constituencies. This is tantamount to giving the electorate in such places, a chance to redeem their sovereignty by electing leaders of their choice.

The danger the NLC sees in this is that if the INEC under Iwu were to conduct these fresh elections, the peoples will might again be subverted.

To ensure free, fair and credible elections, credible umpires are needed not the compromised ones in Iwu’s INEC. Also, giving more funds to a non transparent body like the Iwu - led INEC is like putting a cat in charge of fried fish.

For these reasons, and Prof Iwu’s insistence that the fraud-laden elections the INEC under him conducted in April is credible and fair, the NLC joins millions of patriots in demanding that Prof Maurice Iwu and his cohorts in INEC be replaced by men and women of integrity who can restore the peoples confidence, not just in the electoral system but also in democracy.

The NLC calls on the National Assembly and all Nigerians with conscience to work in concert to ensure the needed changes in INEC just as we all did in the House of Representatives when people of questionable character held the House hostage in the name of leadership.

The time to act is now

Abdulwahed I Omar, President