Nigeria, Feb. 20 -- It is a common knowledge that the root cause of Nigeria's problem is lack of good leadership. Yet, the leaders appear to make no serious efforts towards concrete solutions. Instead, they make the leadership process so deceitful, dishonest, and deadly. To that end, politics is abandoned to a small clique of the corrupt class. The most shameless in the Nigeria's leadership process is the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

As the name suggests, the INEC was envisioned as an independent organization in line with item F,14(2c) of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended). This section states unequivocally that any of its members must "be nonpartisan and a person of unquestionable inte...