Iwu Was Never Deputy to Jega

[Nkolika Ebele]

Be rest assured that the information that IWU was Jega's deputy as ASUU president  or even consultant to INEC is false.  People should stop spreading false rumours. Iwu was once publicity secretary of ASUU at UNN, not even under Jega's national leadership. Please cross check your facts before posting them for wider consumption. Jega is a man of integrity until proven otherwise. Nkolika Unizik Awka

[Mobolaji ALUKO]

 

Nkolika:

 

Although many pieces of information about Iwu still need to be verified, this much we know:

 

From this website: http://www.inecnigeria.org/index.php?cateid=9&contid=2  we read:

 

QUOTE

 

"[Maurice Iwu]  was formally a Professor of Pharmacognosy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1984-1993).......He has served as branch Secretary (UNN) and National Vice-Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. "

 

UNQUOTE

 

We know the period that Iwu taught at UNN, but not the ACTUAL dates in which he served ASUU in  various capacities either at the local or national branches.

 

But know that Prof. Attahiru Jega was ASUU Chairman from 1984-1988.

 

One doubts if Iwu JOINED the university in 1984, and the same year became active at ASUU.

 

So abeg, who knows the correct dates before this particular dragon develops legs?

 

 

 

Bolaji Aluko

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[Okwy Okeke]

Maurice Iwu had left UNN for the U.S. by 1989, reason his first son stayed with Dr. Ugochukwu Uba when he wrote his SSCE O'level examination in Oct/Nov 1989, however, Iwu continued to play an active role in ASUU, but I doubt if in an official capacity.   It was Iwu that paid some Lagos attorneys, I believe Falana among others to defend the UNN professors that clashed with Gomwalk during the later's stint as sole-ad of UNN in the mid-90s, Iwu also provided financial relief to many of them at his cost around the same time Jega was ASUU national president (reason many are surprised at what became of the man many looked up to back then). I recall his stock rose when he got these professors out on bail when no one dared come close in those dark days of the mid-90s when Gomwalk ran UNN like some military barrack, he subsequently flew them to the U.S. via "NADECO route," today, one is a professor at Princeton, another at a smaller college in upstate New York, etc, yes, same Maurice Iwu that gave us 2007 elections result!   Jega could not have been ASUU president in the 80s, he was in the 90s. He led the ASUU strike of the mid-90s that among other things landed him on the cover of Newswatch magazine as man of the year 1994 or 1995, Newswatch archives can resolve that pretty easily.       ---Though on the sign it is written: 'Don't pluck these blossoms' -- it is useless against the wind, which cannot read." --- On Thu, 10/6/10, Mobolaji ALUKO <alu...@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mobolaji ALUKO <alu...@gmail.com> Subject: NIDOA | Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Iwu Was Never Deputy to Jega To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com Cc: NI...@yahoogroups.com, "NaijaPolitics e-Group" <NaijaP...@yahoogroups.com>, "OmoOdua" <Omo...@yahoogroups.com>, "ekiti ekitigroups" <ekiti...@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thursday, 10 June, 2010, 7:17

Nkolika:   Although many pieces of information about Iwu still need to be verified, this much we know:

From this website: http://www.inecnige ria.org/index. php?cateid= 9&contid=2  we read:   QUOTE   "[Maurice Iwu]  was formally a Professor of Pharmacognosy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1984-1993). ......He has served as branch Secretary (UNN) and National Vice-Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. "

UNQUOTE   We know the period that Iwu taught at UNN, but not the ACTUAL dates in which he served ASUU in  various capacities either at the local or national branches.   But know that Prof. Attahiru Jega was ASUU Chairman from 1984-1988.   One doubts if Iwu JOINED the university in 1984, and the same year became active at ASUU.   So abeg, who knows the correct dates before this particular dragon develops legs?       Bolaji Aluko

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[Mobolaji ALUKO]

 

Okwy:

 

Well, we shall continue to do a "Sherlock Holmes" on these dates until we knock 'em down.

 

First, according to the ASUU website Prof. Attahiru Jega was ASUU president from 1988-1994, after a one- or two-year interruption due to its being banned in August 1988 (under the IBB-as-president-Aminu-as-education-minister regime) and de-proscribed in 1990.  By the time Saro-Wiwa was extrajudicially killed in November of 1994, Dr. Asobie was already President of ASUU.

 

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http://www.asuunigeria.org/index.php/about-us/43-history/44-history-and-struggles-of-asuu

 

The strike led to the proscription of ASUU on August 7, 1988. With Professor Jibril Aminu as Minister of Education, the Federal Government banned ASUU, seized all its properties, made announcements directing all universities to immediately pay the EUSS, backdated to January. ASUU responded by forming a new UNIVERSITY LECTURERS ASSOCIATION (ULA). But the proscription broke the back of the strike. Members returned to work. The President, Dr. Attahiru Jega and the Immediate Past President, Dr. Festus Iyayi, were detained and tortured. Passports of ASUU officials were seized. Dr. F. Dimowo (late) and Mr. F. Amade (Ag. Chairman and Secretary of the University of Benin, respectively) were also detained.........

 

In 1990, ASUU was de-proscribed. In 1991, following the Delegates Conference in Badagry, ASUU asked the Babangida regime for negotiation. There were two rounds of negotiation: The first, under the chairmanship of Mr. Senas Ukpanah, broke down when, following a disagreement on Governments offer on salary, the chairman unilaterally suspended negotiation (May 30, 1991). This was followed by governments announcement of a unilateral package........

 

Abachas regime would grant the union considerable concessions. ASUU demonstrated its unwillingness to trade principle for concessions when it took an open, very strong and unambiguous condemnation of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa. This was to draw a letter “from the Minister of Education, Dr. Ibrahim T. Liman, to Dr. H.A. Asobie, then President of ASUU, that ASUU was jeopardizing its relationship with Government.

ASUU did not change its position and instead, began to strengthen its relationship with the civil society organizations. That Dr. Iyorcha Ayu and Dr. T. Liman were former members of ASUU ¢â¬â€œ Dr. Ayu, UNIJOS Chairman before he left the university, did not help ASUUs struggles. (It was then Dr. Abraham Imogie who, later, as the Minister of Education in Ernest Shonekans Government, that showed, without apology, understanding of ASUUs positions.)

UNQUOTE

 

Ayu and Liman had shown previously that prior membership of ASUU did not mean progressive action in government - as Iwu was to show many years later.

 

Having established Jega's tenure, when was Maurice Iwu at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and when did he become a professor?  You say he was at UNN till 1989, but on the INEC website, it says differently - 1993 - a four-year difference:

 

 

QUOTE

 

http://www.inecnigeria.org/index.php?cateid=9&contid=2

 

Professor Maurice Mmaduakolam Iwu was born on April 21 st , 1950 in Umuezeala, Umukabia, Ehime Mbano in Imo State .........

 

He was formally a Professor of Pharmacognosy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1984-1993), ....

 

UNQUOTE

 

That needs to be authoritatively resolved, unless he was just reporting at UNN without remuneration, or he was on some kind of sabbatical when you thought he had left.

 

Now his period of stay at UNN is repeated in his extraordinarily flowery citation for an honorary degree at Imo State University on May 2, 2009, where, inter-alia he is said to have become a professor at age 34:

 

QUOTE

 

http://imsuonline.com/profiwu.aspx

 

His professional career has been as eventful as it been rewarding, not only for him as a person, but also for the larger and humanity. He has a focused and dogged intellectual all his adult life, with a working career that spans the realms of academics, research and administration. He has been a teacher, a lecturer at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (1984-1993), where he became a professor at the age of 34. As a researcher he occupies an enviable place in the realm of scientific research, in specifics in the area of medicinal plants. The many parents he has for original discoveries speak of his success as a researcher.

 

UNQUOTE

 

But since he was born in 1950, age 34 would put the year he became professor at 1984 - the same year he joined UNN!  Is the the case, biko nu, knowing that the word "professor" in Nigeria is not the same thing as that one in the US o??

 

Moving on to the more pertinent issue.......the ASUU affiliation.

 

If Jega was President of ASUU from 1988 to 1994, and Iwu was professor at UNN from 1984-1993, then unless Iwu held office in ASUU ONLY from 1984-1988 (early in his university career, which is unlikely), then indeed they must have held different national offices in the same period.

 

Now the INEC website states that:

 

QUOTE

 

He has served as branch Secretary (UNN) and National Vice-Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

 

UNQUOTE

 

There are no dates here - but also the national office is "Vice-President", not "Vice-Chairman."  For example, the current officers are :

 

QUOTE

 

http://www.asuunigeria.org/index.php/headlines/35-news/131-officials-elected-at-the-16t-ndc

Prof Ukachukwu A.Awuzie,fnia-President(IMSU),
Dr. Nasir F. Isa-Vice President(BUK),
Mr. Sikiru Eniola-Financial Secretary(UNAD)
Dr.(Mrs) Regina Ode-Treasurer(BSU),
Dr. Rotgak Illiya Gofwen-Investment Secretary (UNIJOS),
Dr Daniel Gungula-Internal Auditor(FUT,Yola),
Dr(Barrrister) I.N.E Worugji-Legal  Adviser(UNICAL).
Dr. Abdullahi Sule_Kano -IPP (UDUS

UNQUOTE

 

where as an aside it is significant that the PRESENT Vice-President actually comes from VC. Prof. Attahiru Jega's BUK! 

 

There is no problem with being local ASUU secretary.  But what was Iwu "National Vice-Chairman" of?  Was it of National ASUU, or was there a national task-force set up in which he was Vice-Chairman, and which is now being played up as a "National Vice-Chairman to President Attahiru Jega?"

 

That is the conundrum, wrapped up in a mystery, and delivered as an enigma that needs to be solved, all in an effort to reduce any odiums.

 

And there you have it.

 

 

 

 

Bolaji Aluko

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Presidents and Vice-Presidents of ASUU Dr. Biodun Jeyifo? (OAU Ife) ---  President Dr Mahmud Tukur?   ---Vice President   Dr. Mahmud Tukur (ABU Zaria)  1982-86 Dr. Festus Iyayi (UNIBEN) -- Vice President.   Dr. Festus Iyayi  (UNIBEN)  1986-88 Dr. Attahiru Jega (BUK) ---Vice President..   Dr. Attahiru Jega (BUK)  1988-1994 Dr. Sola Olukunle  ( U.Ibadan)-- Vice President.   Dr. Assissi Asobie (UNN) 1994-2000 Dr. Tanimu Abubakar (ABU)-- Vice President.   Dr. Dipo Fashina (OAU) 2000-2004 Dr. Sule Kano (UNISOK)-- Vice President.   Dr. Sule Kano (UNISOK) 2004-2008 Dr. Offiong (UNICAL) -- Vice President (2004-2006) Dr. Ogbam Nyam(UNN)  --- Vice President (2006-2008)    Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie (IMSU) 2008-Present Dr. Nassir Fagge (BUK) --- Vice President      Yinka.

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He has served as branch Secretary (UNN) and National Vice-Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

 

UNQUOTE

 

There are no dates here - but also the national office is "Vice-President", not "Vice-Chairman."  For example, the current officers are :

 

QUOTE

 

http://www.asuunigeria.org/index.php/headlines/35-news/131-officials-elected-at-the-16t-ndc

Prof Ukachukwu A.Awuzie,fnia-President(IMSU),
Dr. Nasir F. Isa-Vice President(BUK),
Mr. Sikiru Eniola-Financial Secretary(UNAD)
Dr.(Mrs) Regina Ode-Treasurer(BSU),
Dr. Rotgak Illiya Gofwen-Investment Secretary (UNIJOS),
Dr Daniel Gungula-Internal Auditor(FUT,Yola),
Dr(Barrrister) I.N.E Worugji-Legal  Adviser(UNICAL).
Dr. Abdullahi Sule_Kano -IPP (UDUS

UNQUOTE

 

where as an aside it is significant that the PRESENT Vice-President actually comes from VC. Prof. Attahiru Jega's BUK! 

 

There is no problem with being local ASUU secretary.  But what was Iwu "National Vice-Chairman" of?  Was it of National ASUU, or was there a national task-force set up in which he was Vice-Chairman, and which is now being played up as a "National Vice-Chairman to President Attahiru Jega?"

 

That is the conundrum, wrapped up in a mystery, and delivered as an enigma that needs to be solved, all in an effort to reduce any odiums.

 

And there you have it.

 

 

 

 

Bolaji Aluko

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Dear Nkolika, Many thnaks for this. This falsehood was started by RayPower radio. I had called osme of their top managment to retrack tgis falsehood which is meant as smear campaign. The Deputy to Prof. Jage was Dr. Sola Olukunle of the Department of Religious at the University of Ibadan. I also served on that Executive as the National Treasurer (1991-996). Jega himself was Vice President to Festus Iyayi and took over when Grace Alele-Willims arburtrarily sacked Iyayi from University of Benin and got him incarcerated. Maurice Iwu was never a National Officer of ASUU. The records are clear, and journalists should be more cuations about this hasty was of published uninvestigated thrash, ostensibly for political reasons. To be sure, Jega and Iwu can NEVER share the same moral values or political perspectives. Nigerians and the world will soon come to that realisation in a few years. I served him and I knew how Ibrahim Babangida tried to compromise us, and when we refused he banned our Union and started searching for us to incaerated us. During all our underground struggles, incluuing hideouts, I was with Jega throughout. There is nothing anybody can tell me about him. He also went to NorthWestern University, but he does not make noise baout it like some arrogant public officers. he is one of the most humble human beings I ever met in my life. The more I relate with him, the more I realsie how defficent and inadequate I am. He can pluck his eyee and hand over to you, if you need it more than he does. That is Jega for you. he is so tolerant and accomodating of opposing viewpoint and ideological perpectives. Jega is one of the most incorruptible Nigerians I ever knew-his record and legacy in ASUU speaks for itslef, so is his rcord of transparent at BUK whwre he was Vice Chancellor. His integrity is unimpeachable and he is a most committed Nigerian and selfless person. Abu --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Nkolika Ebele <nkol...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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[Mobolaji ALUKO]

 

Dr. Abubakar Momoh:

 

 

Thanks for this. 

 

As I have mentioned, I am intrigued with this episode because even among the most educated in Nigeria - as we Nigerian university lecturers are supposed to be - we have not been able to get right WITHOUT CONTROVERSY a simple piece of information about our leadership that happened within the past twenty years.  After all, the information that Prof Maurice Iwu was "National Vice-Chairman of ASUU" has been on INEC's website since 2005 when Iwu became chairman.  ASUU did not ask for clarification or for it to be brought down, so one cannot simply blame RayPower Radio.

 

For example, a few days ago, I got this information PRIVATELY from someone who is actually a chronicler of academic freedom in Nigeria:

 

QUOTE

 

I think Yinka [BANWO] missed out Iwu. Iwu was elected Vice President with Jega as President at the ASUU NDC at UNN in 1988. Not long afer ASUU was banned and while others continued the struggle Iwu checked out to the USA. When the ban on ASUU was formally lifted another NDC was held at LASU in 1991 where Jega was re-elected President while Sola Olukule of UI was elected Vice President.

 

UNQUOTE

 

So you can see that not all agree with  you.

 

I thank you.

 

 

 

Bolaji Aluko

[Anunoby, Ogugua]

“To be sure, Jega and Iwu can NEVER share the same moral values or political perspectives.”

 

Abu

 

The above claim may be true about the past but who is to say about the future?

“can NEVER” in my considered opinion is too certain and definitive to describe human future action. The pressures on an ASUU President are different and distinct from the pressures on an INEC Chairman. People who know Dr. Jega  believe that he (Dr.. Jega) has an enviable antecedent and pedigree. They say that he is proud to be his own man. That was in the past.

Ahmadu Ali was a serious and faithful leader of the National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) as an undergraduate student at the University of Ibadan. He was NUNS tormentor  and worst enemy as Obasanjo’s Federal Commissioner of Education. Circumstances, interest, and time change people.

Dr. Jega is a student of history and government. He must know that free and fair elections are at the heart of democratic governments. He must know that a democratic government is not worth it name if elections are not free and fair. He must know that his performance on his new job as INEC Chairman will ensure that Nigerians chose their political leaders, and dismiss them for non-performance. His work is cut out for him.  We wish him well.

We shall see.   

 

oa

[Mobolaji ALUKO]

 

June 14, 2010

 

 

Dear Colleagues & Compatriots:

 

 

I thank all of you who have contributed to this discussion of the precise relationship between Prof. Maurice Iwu and Prof. Attahiru Jega with respect to their previous ASUU positions held.

 

For ANYBODY to suggest that after Iwu's turbulent period as INEC Chairman (2005-2010), the prior RELATIONSHIPS between himself and his IMMEDIATE successor do not to matter a hoot is completely disingenuous.  It is to turn common sense and logic on its head, for it is possible that too familiar a relationship may cause certain nefarious activities of his predecessor, if any,  to be swept under the carpet.  There is a possiblity that it would be the same play, just a different actor.

 

Now the activities of Prof. Attahiru Jega as a consultant (or working closely) with Prof. Maurice Iwu DURING the tenure of Iwu as Chairman is uncontested.  There is enough public record - including photographs and publications - to show that.  Even I have met Jega in proximate company of Iwu and discussed at least once with him on the matter, yet I am ENTHUSIASTIC, in fact ELATED that Jega has been proposed as INEC Chairman.  I believe that he will succeed if he sets an example for the other commissioners and treats his office religiously as the Pope of Democracy in Nigeria  (maybe Grand Khadi, if he prefers), and abjures politics and politicians, and treats the job strictly as a database management job, and not have any pre-determination as to who would win ANY elections in Nigeria. He should focus like a laser beam first on the voters' register, and once the dates of the elections are agreed, adhere strictly to the time-table.

 

But my continued interest in the precise ASUU relationship between the two of them stems from what I always find in Nigeria as a SHOCKING attitude to data and information, an almost anti-intellectual and cavalier attitude and recklessness about information.  If we as university professors CANNOT agree on who led us within the past twenty years, what hope for Nigeria? All the presidents and vice-presidents of the United States are known from April 30, 1789 to date (forty-three people sworn into office as president, and forty-four presidencies; and forty-seven vice-presidents), but here we are arguing about the leadership of ASUU since 1980?

 

Well, for our information, there have been eight ASUU presidents and ten vice-presidents since 1980.

 

Moving on....

 

Iwu has listed his position as "National Vice-Chairman of ASUU" on his INEC website since 2005.  There is no such position in ASUU, and yet ASUU did not protest.  Iwu provided no dates on his website and in his honorary degree citation.  Some people said that he was Vice-President of Jega, and yet Jega was president from 1988 to 1994.  Most could swear that Iwu had gone abroad - to my neck of the woods actually - in 1989, so how could he have been Vice-President, others asked?  Some came out AUTHORITATIVELY that he was not Vice-President, while other more knowledgeable wrote privately that indeed he was (elected in 1988 at a UNN NDC), but after emigrating (some said "checked out" like Andrew) to the US during the 1988-1990 ban on ASUU, he had to be replaced by one Dr. Olukunle of UI who served out the term from 1990 - 1994.

 

All I wanted was a straightening of the records, and it had NOTHING to do about inditing Prof. Jega over his association with Iwu.

 

I am happy to report that the verdict is in.  I emailed Prof. Attahiru Jega today to inquire - taking up just a minute fraction of his time - and he responded that Prof. Maurice Iwu was indeed his Vice-President in 1988 for a brief period in time, but that he would not exactly use the term "checked out."

 

I did not press him further, and took that as the final word.

 

So please let us move on to more important things, along the lines of Professors Ifedioramma Eugene Nwana and Ogugua Anunoby and Nkolika Ebele below.  Jega needs all of our moral and intellectual support - even our religious prayers - as activists, as academics and professors and as Nigerians in general.  However, it is also in his interest to know that he is being watched closely, and that the electoral disaster of 2007 should NEVER be allowed to happen again.

 

Best wishes all.

 

 

 

Bolaji Aluko

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Howard University

 

 

Presidents and Vice-Presidents of ASUU

Dr. Biodun Jeyifo (OAU Ife) ---  President (1980-82)
Dr Mahmud Tukur (ABU Zaria)   ---Vice President

 
Dr. Mahmud Tukur (ABU Zaria)  1982-86
Dr. Festus Iyayi (UNIBEN) -- Vice President.
 
Dr. Festus Iyayi  (UNIBEN)  1986-88
Dr. Attahiru Jega (BUK) ---Vice President..
 
Dr. Attahiru Jega (BUK)  1988-1994

Dr. Maurice Iwu (UNN) -- Vice President 1988-1990 (period of ASUU ban)
Dr. Sola Olukunle  ( U.Ibadan)-- Vice President (1990-1994)

 
Dr. Assissi Asobie (UNN) 1994-2000
Dr. Tanimu Abubakar (ABU)-- Vice President.
 
Dr. Dipo Fashina (OAU) 2000-2004
Dr. Sule Kano (UNISOK)-- Vice President.
 
Dr. Sule Kano (UNISOK) 2004-2008
Dr. Offiong (UNICAL) -- Vice President (2004-2006)
Dr. Ogbam Nyam(UNN)  --- Vice President (2006-2008)
 
Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie (IMSU) 2008-Present
Dr. Nassir Fagge (BUK) --- Vice President 
 

 

 

____________________________________________________________________________

 

 

 

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Hi All,
What is the need straining ourselves to the extent we are doing just to connect Iwu to Jega.  Is the aim of such a connection to suggest that because Iwu and Jega worked together, or were to have worked together, Jega's term at INEC would be like Iwu's.  I fail by all strands of imagination to see the need for this pastime.  
That is why politicians often get impatient with us academics and consider our judgments as nothing but esoteric and of very little practical importance. 
Like Nkolika has suggested, can we get down to serious talks about assisting Professor Attahiru Jega, one of the most known names in ASUU leadership, to succeed at INEC.  Professor Jega has proved consistent even when faced with the powerful, if difficult, job of a Vice Chancellor. 
I do not subscribe  to the argument that Iwu's performance at INEC should constitute an opprobrium for all and any prospective Professor at the INEC job.  After all it was a Professor, Humphrey Nwosu, who conducted the 1993 General  Elections, which are still acclaimed as the best in the history of this country; Professor Nwosu was the first professor to head the Electoral body in Nigeria!  
If Professor Jega would be given a free hand and adequate funds, he should immediately discard whatever records that exist at INEC offices countrywide as Voters' Registers.  He should device a means to get Nigerians properly registered for the 2011, and even subsequent, elections.  The processes of registration and voting are clearly stated even in the 2006 Act.  These should be followed. However, the more important step is to device a means to get Nigerians do the right thing at the Registration Centres.  The strategy should be properly thought out and made public only through their implementation.  One of the greatest problems with Nigeria is that once a good plan is proposed there would be people who spend their time and mental energy devicing to thwart the proposal.  I believe that the greatest effort should be on how to stop these people so as to provide the rest of us  the benefits of the services of good persons like Professor Jega! 
We, those who are truly concerned with the development of this country, should all contribute not develop spurious arguments or seek untainable connections. 
 
Ifedioramma Eugene Nwana PhD, FESN, JP.
Professor of Agriculture and Economic Entomology

[ayandiji daniel]

This is becoming interesting. We have suddenly joined the natural scientists to begin to predict and, or indict people for the future, past and present. Let me join you then. From afar, Professor Jega is as described by my friend and respected colleague, Abu. Honestly, I hold similar views of Abu as Abu did of Jega in his last piece-though we sometimes throw punches (expectedly). The public arena is a different world especially dealing with Nigerian political class. As a christian, my duty is to pray earnestly for Professor Jega, the man all Nigerian will soon love to hate. How? It is either that he is going to be arm twisted in the murky waters of Nigerian politics or frustrated out of office. If he is frustrated out of office with his integrity intact, that may be better! He may sadly not even have space to prove his purity. He will be confronted with the awesome PDP rigging, do-or-die machinery. He will be saddled with back stabbers who will ironically be former ASUU colleagues who are no longer in the aluta spirit and lastly, he will contend with fake voters register out of which a WINNER MUST EMERGE. Jega's middle name is simply "NO LONGER AT EASE". What else does he need than prayers of the faithful for deliverance from all of us. He must NEVER allow indecision in the face of need to take a decision. He must be prepared to sacrifice all as desperados are usually in charge in the Nigerian political society. May you succeed IJN Prof AD Aina Babcock University Nigeria --- On Mon, 6/14/10, Anunoby, Ogugua <Anun...@lincolnu.edu> wrote: