At its meeting of Tuesday, October 27, the leadership of the Action Congress, AC, was treated to what could be described as the home truth. At least, this was the first time in a very long while that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar would be attending such a meeting.

First, I was alarmed when Bode went into politics and joined the PDP and quickly became part of Obasanjo’s inner caucus. I was alarmed because as Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, had warned us, “If you work with glue, sooner or later you are going to get stuck.” (Vanguard Book of Quotations, p.76). I knew that a PDP under the leadership of Obasanjo was going to be a cesspool of corruption – the sort to be avoided by decent people.

THE coin in issue is Nigeria. A coin is said to have two sides, a head and a tail. The head does not and cannot make the coin; nor can the tail. We then usually say two sides of the same coin, meaning the head side and the tail side. I saw the Nigerian coin at work on October 23.

THE situation the entire world finds itself in is not at all new, technology and interconnectivity of peoples and economies is what gives this particular recession the Armageddon factor. Almost every corner of the globe is affected and while the ricocheting affect will be felt for a while, it will pass, all recessions do.

*’How Obasanjo hijacked ANPP, tried to take over DPP’ * ‘Speaks on life out of office, experience in school as student Dalhatu Bafarawa, immediate past governor of Sokoto State, in this interview, says the 2011 general elections  will be different with the emergence of  the new party, National Democratic Movement, NDM,  being promoted  by different […]