Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Maurice Iwu has described the Nigerian society as sick, lamenting that some Nigerians could descend so low in order to achieve their selfish interests.

Fielding questions at an interaction session with a cross-section of Nigerians in London on Monday, Prof. Iwu said no amount of modern technology use would give credibility and integrity to elections in the country if Nigerians lacked integrity and acted with insincerity.

"Technology relies on people for integrity and credibility", Prof. Iwu said in response to the question on whether INEC was considering the use of modern communication technology such as email, twitter or face-book for voters to register or vote at future elections in Nigeria.

He said it was a sad reality of the Nigerian society that parents could let their children cheat at exams, forge their examination results or arrange for others to sit for their exams.

"Nigerian politicians find it very difficult to accept electoral defeat", he said, lamenting that those who initially conceded defeat and congratulated the winner of the recent gubernatorial election in Anambra state later retracted their statements.

On the 2011 elections, Prof. Iwu said INEC "has all it takes to conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria", and described the Anambra elections as a test-case for INEC's hypothesis for the 2011 general elections, emphasizing that the polls were free and fair and reflected the wishes of the majority of the people of the state.