Humphrey Nwosu Blew It

I have followed the reports on Humphrey Nwosu's feeble attempt to defend IBB on June 12 and I cannot help but wonder why the electoral commission chairman should be the insider who knows the truth.

Nwosu, to the best of my knowledge, was not a member of the military junta ruling Nigeria at that time.   How then can he convince us that he actually knew what happened?  Or is Nwosu simply a PR mouthpiece for IBB as has been suggested?  I cannot put it beyond that for I have noticed many people who worked for Babangida continue in that capacity, as his "loyal servants" even long after leaving office. 

I could only remember Nwosu as a loquacious university teacher who was appointed to conduct elections for Nigeria.  To his credit, however, goes the widely accepted view that he conducted the freest polls in the country's history.  Also to his credit is the option A4 open voting system, however primitive.  Option A4 did work but the gains of that were obliterated by the annulment and subsequent crises that followed in the Abacha years.

I think people like Nwosu should keep quiet and stop attempting to rewrite history.  Babangida was the president and leader of the military council and the responsibility  of all actions and inactions of that regime and the military junta at the top were ultimately his.  Let him live with that.