On yes, no law obligates that FEC to prove to us that Yar’Adua is fit to rule, so, as demanded by the court, they have done what the constitution asked them to do – pass a banal resolution that is totally false, because unsubstantiated, that the president is in “perfect health”. So, end of story, and the pillage of the country is accelerated beyond whatever this country has ever experienced.

Any peace without justice is violence postponed. Since nobody was brought to justice for the crimes committed last year, the criminals were embolden to repeat their atrocities this year with more sadistic brutishness

It is against this backdrop that we approach the coming election of February to determine who takes charge of governance in the state. It isn’t because a civilised political atmosphere prevails in Anambra that most people are standing on edge over the possible outcome of the polls. On the contrary, every one is scared that there is cause for concern because of the violence which is daily escalating in the state.

Since late Monday morning this week, opposing forces in the Nigeria constitutional crisis began to move decisively. Our president in absentia spoke for the first time, and within 10 hours of his speech, the opposition to his constitutional violations was up in arms in their thousands virtually rejecting Mr. President’s excuse for his disregard of the law of the land.

Nigerians are furious that America has given us a name which does not belong to us. According to them, Nigeria is classified amongst countries that sponsor terrorism. This is outrageous!!! Really, who is a terrorist? If a man or a nation throws a bomb on a community killing dozens of people for whatever reason, is that person or nation a terrorist?

When the Federal Executive Council passed a resolution some two weeks ago confirming that the president is in good health, and therefore can govern, the whole country had thought that it would be a matter of days before Mr. President would resume at his duty post in Aso Rock. But the man is still absent!! What’s really going on? Why is anybody or group of people afraid to let a constitutionally identified individual act on behalf of this president, temporarily, until he is well enough to be at his duty post? Why is the FEC so timid over doing what’s right in the present circumstances?

If in 10 years of democracy (since 1999) we cannot put a solid finger on any positive, life-enhancing benefit that the hopeless refrain of deregulation has brought to Nigeria, (Except the massive rip-off called GSM), why should anybody want to persuade us that deregulation – especially in the oil sector – would make any difference to our lives in this tragic country?

What on paper looks so simple to do, in respect of the President’s health and governance of Nigeria has assumed a proportion greater than a herculean task for otherwise intelligent politicians of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP.

The impression people have is that the most of current bunch of people in politics are in it not for what they can do for, or give to society, but for what “spoils” and “loot” they can milk off our sick political environment.

The nation’s political atmosphere is heating up unnecessarily over the issue of President Yar’Adua’s ill-health. This is putting the entire question into a negative perspective altogether.

Several normal Nigerians would have been totally crestfallen when they read on Tuesday the story of how the Venezuelan Ambassador to this country, at a moment of truth, brushed aside protocol to pass a vital message to Nigeria about how the country’s failures in multiple dimensions is troubling the developing world.

Is it still possible to look a Nigerian in the face and not think of corruption? Apart from the criminal suspicion with which Nigerians are perceived in most parts of the world, we appear to have added another ugly face of corruption to our putrid image abroad.

Every passing day, events unfolding in the run-up to 2011 are lowering hope for a credible political process that is deemed democratic.

We are already a hopelessly “deregulated” society. Everything about us is no longer, by any means, regulated. Government, politicians and economic miracle workers believe that the only way we can enjoy a better life in Nigeria is to be economically socially and politically deregulated.