Elections Rerun and all that Mess

It looks like Imo State has emerged electing a non-PDP candidate to its government house in Owerri. Chief Ikedi Ohakim of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) rumored to have won the guber election in Imo State, turned voters off on the basis the results had been planned in advance. A recorded voter apathy was seen around the country based on the two previous elections which were marred by irregularities.

The Vanguard News website is not reporting on the elections rerun. I wonder what happened. Also as the election reruns unfolds, Olusegun Obasanjo is so sure of a smooth transition May 29, he has named a 29-man committee "to handle all processes leading to the inauguration and swearing in of Alhaji Musa Yar'Adua as President on 29 May 2007." Among the committee members are Mr. Frank Nweke Jr., Minister of Information and Communications, Ambassador Aguiyi Ironsi, Minister of Defence, and Uche Okereke.

In Ogun State, Obasanjo's eldest daughter and former commissioner of health in the state, Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello was able to cast her vote while her major opponent Prince Lanre Tejuoso "could not cast his own vote due to shortage of voting materials in his Ago Oko area of Abeokuta."

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is speaking out and has condenmed the elections calling for its cancellation.

Elsewhere, in the nation, Kano businessman Alhaji Sani Yunusa is being interrogated and has been held in detention for a week on his plans to blow up INEC headquarters building in Abuja.