We are already in the critical stage of the election year when people make up their minds to contest or not. It usually is a period of great distraction for those who want to perform, and of course a time for absenteeism by unscrupulous political office holders.

Things are moving rather faster than most of us would have expected. In the country there are social, political and economic activities all moving in different directions at comparative speed, not so easy to fathom.

The issue is no longer Iwu. He is gone for good. Our controvertial professor chairman of INEC has lost his spirited battle to stay on his lucrative job. Now, that man is part of our blighted history.

I have said in this column before that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan will be assessed strictly by what he does. So, I am not disappointed that he recognises it and is moving in step with public expectations.

We clamoured for a new cabinet; now we have one. I was not among those who expected a miracle, but it is only fair to admit that, given our political climate, this new team is the product of high political calculations. If you place it on a chess board, you can rate it as a “Master’s move.”

As at the last count, the new cabinet list from the presidency has reached 38, and perhaps still counting. Names are moving back and forth and causing ripples all over the place. Well, that is to be expected especially in a party like the PDP where influence peddling is the norm for sharing political jobs.

As expected by most Nigerians, we are beginning to feel some movements in the polity. For those who know, all movement has a melody that could either irritate or please. It all depends on where you are coming from, different movements could evoke different responses that is what the two critical moves from the seat of power in Abuja this week have done.

A repeat performance of the Jos bestial killings, within weeks; brings to the front burner the question of security in Nigeria and our approach to state policing.

For the second time (last weekend) in three short months the city of Jos, Plateau State capital, had experienced calamitous events around it that its people are far much worse than traumatised; they must be feeling dehumanised; and every other sane Nigerian with them must feel hard done by. We are disgraced, scandalised and made to feel like part of a brutish kingdom dominated by modern day cannibals.

I am one of the many fans of Oprah Winfrey but a brave decision to allow herself to be photographed without makeup and hair extensions showed a face that would not have sold a single magazine or even present a show to an audience of one talk less of the billions that the glammed up spectacular woman that is the result of a full hair and makeup team.

All expectations of Nigerians that the meeting of the Federal Executive Council last Wednesday will be a decisive step forward for the country came to be a stunning non event that has left a terrible taste in people’s mouth.

The big news is that Mr President is back home after exactly 90 days in which he practically disappeared. That’s supposed to have been a thing of joy for all of us, but some evil people have made the event into a “kill-joy.” They smuggled him in at the dead of night (around 2am on Wednesday) and spirited him into a waiting ambulance enroute Aso Rock.

Every day, since Jonathan was circumstantially made to stand in as “Acting President”, new developments have been popping up that make the current calm a very uneasy one. The latest is the issue raised by the President of the West African Bar Association, Mr Femi Falana, that constitutionally, Jonathan can only “act” for three months after which the law stipulates that an election should be called.

Do our good readers remember the above title? That was the theme of the controversial documentary by former Vice President of the United States of America, Al Gore on climate change.