If anybody deserves to apologize to Nigerians it is the corrupt politicians. Who cares what EU and US election observers think about Nigerian election? Perhaps this author’s neo-colonial mentality has forgotten that the same EU that has turned Zimbabweans into paupers via their economic sanctions in order to compel a popularly elected President Mugabe to say "Yessir" to the "Master", just as the same Europeans killed a democratically elected Lumumba in favor of Mobutu thus conferring to the Congolese at its birth a legacy of a failed state we see today due to its un-ending civil wars for most part of its 47-year history. Lest we forget about Slavery and Jim Crow practices in a democratic US until the advent of President-Elect Obama – there is a biblical saying that b4 you criticize the speck in your neighbors eyes, remove the log in yours, first. Please show more pride in your roots. The interest of most Nigerians is how we improve Nigeria's future elections and infrastructure so as to make life better for the common man - even a benevolent dictatorship would be preferred than these Rouge Politicians. The past is gone; even though it may be prologue; let's move forward instead of wasting time rehashing old but dead issues. As far as I am concerned, Iwu and his staff conducted a credible election based on the parameters of election laws allowed INEC, at this point. If there is any deficiency in our electoral laws, let our do-nothing National Assembly pass legislations that will make INEC more effective in conducting better elections in the future. I just read that our national association of Nigerian students govt has elected Mr. Iwu as their Man of the Year - obviously, our youth are more progressive thinking than these old and sour minds like this author. The greatest mistake Nigeria ever made was not approving OBJ's 3rd Term - the same deal that allowed Museveni to deliver an enormous economic growth & political stability for Ugandans. Ditto for Cameroun, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, among other 3rd World countries with benevolent dictators, especially Chile under General Pinochet who was encouraged by the US in the 1970s / 1980s to topple President Allende's democratically elected govt. I guess the EU and US choose foreign leaders they support based in their national interest regardless of democratic principles or dictatorship – I guess might must be right then. Oh well, whatever….