Read the passage below and answer questions 1-5 that follow.
Still reeling from the after-effects of our avoidable disgrace from the on-going World Cup in south Africa, I started rummaging through my archives - too distraught to do any serious thinking other than nurse in quite mourning the immense disgrace on this piece written in July, 2008: 'At the height of judicial somersaults and double-takes in our election politics', it occurred to me that little had changed since then. so, I let myself go, as I went through the pieces. It became obvious to me that a corrupt tree cannot produce incorruptible fruits. It beat me how anyone then expected any electoral law created by people whose mandates had been tarnished by allegations of electoral malpractices to curb or even brigandage in Nigeria. When past masters of rigging and their surrogates sit at the table to reform the electoral law, those of us pushed outside of the political equation are amused, and sadly resigned. We suspect we are being led by the nose, yet we can do no more than squint out noses, and hope the smell will go away.