Nigeria, April 17 -- Six months after his appointment as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Amupitan appears determined to beat the record of Professor Maurice Iwu as the most mistrusted electoral administrator yet.

Iwu, a professor of Pharmacognosy (the study of medicinal plants), also had the distinction of managing Nigeria's worst elections in 2007. On top of that, he gave science a bad name with the dubious claim that he had discovered the cure for Ebola.

The last thing Amupitan wants is to upstage Iwu's sordid reputation. His comments on social media are stalking him, and he must be wondering if his job is over even before it started.

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