The political battle to give Northern that part of the country a new crop of leaders who would pay particular attention to checking the region’s backwardness has intensified as the Northern Youth Movement for Positive Change announced, yesterday it would mobilize 50 million youths and the underprivileged voters for the 2011 general elections.

Akomas is accused of failing to attend the reception for Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu when the APGA leader led the APGA national chairman, Chief Victor Umeh and Governor Peter Obi to the public declaration by Governor Orji for APGA in Umuahia.

Faulting the judgement by the Chief Judge, Mr. Ude declared: “There was no evidence that the Appellant was holding any leadership position in the Lokpanta Youths Movement at the time of the alleged murders.

As the political activist and revolutionary Spartan, Balarabe Musa, cogently argued, to easily brush aside zoning as the proponents of Jonathan for President are doing is an act of political charlatanism; it betrays a tendency to dishonor commitments. Without honor in politics, the nation-state ends up as a den of robbers.

It is the turn of the North and that turn should be respected. Jonathan does not represent the North and should not complete the tenure of the North. He can get somebody from the North to run for four years and afterwards, he can run his turn. He can even run for eight years.