I cannot believe that this Iwu that conducted an 'UNFAIR ELLECTION' is condemning the recent American election asking them to learn from us or him. Maybe he wants American to learn how to conduct violent elections - marred with killings, buying voters with money, bribery, threat and stealing the votes and choices of the poor. He wants them to learn that we can decide on who will be ellected before elctions - regardless the outcome of elections, through false manipulations from his office. Due to American population, despite the method they used, people still spent hours on lines before they could vote. Iwu wants them to conduct election on one day so that some voters will not have chance to vote - the tactics they are using for us to prevent oppositions and poor from voting, preventing them from having their say, giving offices to people of their or his interest, the looters. I think he needs medical attention. I congratulate Americans for the good job they had done.

Iwu must have been out of his mind to have said things like that instead of applauding the Americans and their system he is condenming it what excatly does he want them to learn from us is it how to rig elections or what, he cannot fool all of us at the same time we are not blind any more he better rethink before he opens his mouth to says any nonesense

Let’s not be too harsh on ourselves here, lest we forget that the US has been conducting Presidential elections since the late 1700s. 44 Presidential elections, so far, compared to Nigeria's 2nd Presidential election which dates back to 1979. If one looks at the controversy surrounding the US 2000 election, one can conclude that elections in the US are still growing pains that was perfected further this year - they still have problems with voters' registration and electronic voting machines which some wanted Nigeria to try and would've been compromised - given machine errors - not some mago-mago of rigging as international observers often rush to biased judgment about anything Nigerian. For those international observers that condemned Nigeria's 2007 elections, I would only call them mischief makers that would do whatever it takes to destabilize us. I am not saying that 2007 election is perfect but what do you expect from a 2nd attempt when those that have had 44 of them are still attempting to perfect their system. We'll get to be more perfect in due course as long as we keep trying to educate ourselves on the process that is endemic to our cultural structures and not lose hope. May God bless Nigeria, too, in our honest attempt to be more perfect.

I am quite astonished that Prof. Iwu who, in spite of his shortcomings in the last bungled election in Nigeria, now has the audacity to criticize the world's oldest "true" democracy. If one were to equate the US Electoral process as one which is representative of the "government of the people, for the people and run by the people", the experiment of the democratic nuance which Prof. Iwu ran would be in pari passu with a child's play. To Prof. Iwu, the outcome of the election were already known. The candidates who were "selected", not "elected" knew ahead of time that they would occupy certain positions the ruling party wished for them to occupy. On the other hand, the American process affords the general public the ability to choose the most qualified candidate to run the affairs of the country through the process of deduction. The Primaries affords the general public to measure the level of maturity of each candidate. In other words, the boys are seperated from the men, in a manner of speaking. And, in the General Election, the "best man or woman" had to win. If a candidate had no real agenda drawn for representing his/her constituency- as is often the case with Nigeria, they would be voted out. Political accountability in Nigeria lies with Abuja and not with the constituencies which members of the National Assembly represents. As is the case with the US, each member of either the House or the Senate have fully staffed offices with professionals who understand the needs of the particular geographic region which they represented, and do equally assist each member to draft Bills which elicits public debate, and feedback from the constituencies.But, in the Nigerian experiment, local concerns are of no real consequence to the National Assembly representatives because political pressures are not brought to bear. The good thing about the last election in Nigeria is that, whereas the so-called party bug wigs might have thought that the President would be an easy walkover, Yar Adua surprised everyone with his sense of independence in thinking. He could not be so easily manipulated into toing the line. And for this, I truly respect him.

Iwu is the most stupid man in the world. Rather than telling Nigerians to learn from a true, and fair way of conducting election, he is condemning it. American, Don't need to learn from Nigeria in any way Prof. Iwu if you were in American I am sure you will be languishing in Max. security prison for election fraud lurky you

What is wrong with conducting an election over many days if this will enable virtually all the elligible voters cast their vote. I note that Iwu was apparently referring to the presidential election. Is he not aware that the election was not only presidential but also included gubernatorial, senatorial and house of rep? Over how many days did Iwu conduct his phantom presidential, senatorial and house of rep elections?

Ecce African 'intellectuals.' Absent a robust LITERARY TRADITION, they pimp on the traditions of others.

Ecce the African 'professoriate.' Captured in US and UK universities, alienated to the core and deeper, they talk about "African philosophy," African this, that; yet, stuck they are, in the land of the ugly and the beautiful: the USA. Marooned.

And now comes a professor with a naive, uninformed, perhaps 'post' modernist critique of the recent elections. Dude, you have a right to your OPINIONS, however ungrounded and ungroundable, but you do not have a right to SPIN US constitutional FACTS.

Respectfully, your critique is uninformed, hubristic, and wrongheaded and silly. No wonder Nietzsche preferred insanity to professing at sanitoriums of theoretico-practical idleness.

Grand question: what have 'African' intellectuals done for Africa? Nada, nada, nada again: tails of soupist politicians.

Prof. relax: this ain't no classroom. Next wrong move: massive deconstruction, to ape the obscurantist code of eggheads.

Kindest Derridean Felicitations that efface themselves as they are encoded. Good God almighty: a heap of nonsense, a mountain of theoretical crap.