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All these big grammar Abati and nothing comes out of it? This article is the best example I see to date of what critics like Sabella has accused the Guardian of being: a toothless bulldog.

No condemnation of a President that kept a fraudulent and failure INEC in place. No request for Iwu's resignation. No dissection of the magic votes in Ido Osi and how that turnout is mathematically impossible. No shining the light investigation of the conscience turn about of INEC REC. No analysis of the damp the deployment of military men, and the resulting intimidation puts on the electorates, and how it diminishes our democracy. Abati should be ashamed of himself...and so should 90% of Nigerian journalists (less the guys at the Punch- the only true newspaper on the side of the Nigerian people).

Guardian is a pathetic case of media failure; very much like the failure of the American media in the run up to the Iraq war. There is no middle ground when fighting injustice, and trying to edge your bets is simply playing the devil. I can handle knowing Thisday and Tribune are no tools in the hands of our oppressors but Guardian? The so called vanguard of truth and good conscience? The flagship of Nigerian journalism? How has the mighty fallen!

The media was single handely responsible for the return of democracy to Nigeria, but it is shame they are struggling to enthrone a democratic culture. Our journalists have been taken over by brown envelopes, parochial considerations and need to have access to power. Corrupt power. Laziness prevails in our editorial rooms, where editors like Abati have no appetite for speaking truth to power or conducting detailed investigative journalism that will put EFCC to shame. This article should be titled: "Ekiti: My Cop Out!" Shame on Abati!