Countrymen and women, opponents and loyalists at long last the Electoral Commission?s comedy of errors has ended. We will never know how the comical manner the EC went about the voters? registration exercise actually affected the number of Ghanaians who have been enfranchised (or disenfranchised). All we are likely to hear in the next few weeks will be the usual ?we did our best? and ?we have learnt our lesson? choruses. But no matter what the EC says, I believe that the just-ended exercise has been one of the EC?s best performances in mediocrity. I knew from the day the commission announced its plans for the registration exercise that it will start and end in fiasco. Thank God, they couldn?t prove me wrong. Whilst the EC was busy making a mess of itself and botching the registration exercise, my ?beautiful truth bearing? predecessor, Jerry Boom, was smearing more dirt on his already soiled reputation by appointing himself the Chief Observer of the exercise. At one point, he got so angry with the irregularities that he decided to vent his misguided anger on a poor man at Ashaiman. I hope someone has called Dr. Asare to prepare a bed for Mr. Boom. I think that both Jerry Boom and the EC deserve an award (let?s say the Order of the Scum of the Volta) for their superlative performances over the past two weeks.

While congratulating the EC for a job well done so badly, I hope to God that their fiasco of a registration exercise will not put any dent on the clean victory I am going to win over Asomdwehene Fiifi in December.