[FILE] INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmoud YakubuProfessor Mahmoud Yakubu is back at his duty post as INEC chairman after he stepped aside briefly for the Senate to confirm him for a second term. He has promptly served notice that he is bent on pursuing some amendments in both the 1999 constitution and the electoral act to strengthen the commission and commit it being fair to all elective office seekers and give our elections a good name. I look forward to the day our elections generate something much better than snickers. Yakubu is passionate about the INEC reforms. He has been since he took on this jungle job in the political jungle where things have a way of making the crooked look all wise and smart. He is determined to leave a legacy of an electoral system that is less atomistic and consumed by mago-mago and wuru-wuru and perpetually at war with itself. He wants to build an electoral system that can birth elections with local and international acceptability and integrity. I am no great shakes at prayers but I can manage this: may his tenure become the watershed in our long and frustrating quest for an electoral system run smoothly on the tracks of law and the observance of the rule of law. And may the Holy Ghost fire rain down on all politicians who turn themselves into barriers against him.