I wonder if anyone observed the manner or comportment of the professors who were employed to act in one capacity or the other during the rerun election in Osun state. The returning officer and collating officers who read the results in the wards were professors, all fully employed and working in universities.

My little write up here has to do with the coldness of their reporting and their already prepared responses when they were asked if they noticed any form of violence with the areas that they were assigned. They all coldly responded that they did not observe any violence or complain within their assigned areas. Apparently they had prepared texts.

Let me disregard the overnight reports of arrests of PDP agents and face the reports of the particular day. The media carried it all over how the police had connived with thugs to arrest journalists, particularly AIT staff and chased them away. Agents and voters of PDP were chased away and harrassed by police and thugs of the APC. At a point we were informed how INEC had complained about the negative developments during the election. Yet it became clear to the whole world as events unfolded that INEC was a biased umpire. Election observers were harrassed and chased away. The security agents who were deployed to the respective polling units to protect the voters and keep peace turned around to be agents of wuruwuru ensuring that their master's request was carried out effectively.

Our respected professors told us that they did not hear any violence or complain in all the polling units. How far can we go as a nation when we have such men in our universities deceiving themselves and the entire nation? Umpires are supposed to be unbiased people ensuring fair play and justice. The professors apparently were waiting for questions on violence to be raised as they were told clearly what to reply. Democracies thrive when there is a balance. It gives the people the opportunity to choose who they want to rule them. You cannot force yourself on the people. If the best democracies in the world have these kind of men as empires, they would not have beautiful nations where our people travel to and never want to return home. They acted as men without consciences. I wonder how they can sleep on their beds with peace in their hearts. What kind of knowledge do they impart in their children and students? So if it is the case that "respected" professors are willing to ruin their images because of financial gains why don't INEC rather employ garage chairmen as election umpires - at least they do not care about their images and we all know what garage chairmen are made of.

Professors are well respected in our society, hence the choice to use them as collation & returning officers, unfortunately most will continually be compromised because they don't earn as much as our politicians do.