The Supreme Court yesterday slammed the gubernatorial candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in the 2007 elections in Sokoto state, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi, over what it described as a deliberate attempt by the appellant to create judicial anarchy in his bid to sack the incumbent governor, Aliyu Wamakko, from office.

FORMER Military President Ibrahim Babangida said yesterday that he would remain undaunted even though he was prepared to keep to the elements of the Consensus Agreement of the Mallam Adamu Ciroma led Committee that ex-vice President Atiku Abubakar as the preferred candidate for the north.

The Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation yesterday put the blame of the loss of Osun State by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on former President Olusegun Obasanjo who the GROUP blamed for mismanaging the party’s fortunes in the South West.

GOVERNOR Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola of Osun State has promised to redirect the course of governance in the State in the direction of human and social development of the people after what he claims to be seven and a half years of directionless administration.

On a day that the Court of Appeal declared Engr. Rauf Aregbesola as the winner of the 2007 Osun State governorship elections, six months to the end of his supposed tenure after three and a half years of legal fisticuffs, President Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharaf and former Ambassador to the United Nations, Chief Arthur Mbanefo, have urged Nigerians to end election rigging by protecting their votes in the 2011 polls.

For the family of Alhaji and Alhaja Tunde Busari both natives of Ilorin in Kwara state , it has been decades of nightmares, agonies, pains, humiliation and disappointments over their state of childlessness until early this month when a set of twins silently crept into the family. The family got married in 1986.

The acceptance of the PDP’s de cision to field Atiku Abubakar by his rivals is a model of democratic practice at the highest level. Pardon me if, even as a Nigerian, I affirm that it is “unNigerian”. Perhaps it presages a brighter future for our national politics

Papa Herbert Unegbu was a first generation Nigerian journalist. He was News Editor, Daily Times, Editor, West African Pilot, Eastern Regional Editor, Radio Nigeria and Head of News, Biafran Broadcasting Corporation.

At long last, Lagos doctors have called off their three and half months’old strike. And gradually life is picking up at the Lagos hospitals.

Chief Barnabas Gemade, former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party does not agree Atiku Abubakar is the consensus candidate of the North as he is being projected. ‘I am a Northerner and he does not represent me or my political views’. He dismisses consensus as a reflection of political interest of Mallam Adamu Ciroma and says Atiku is no match for Jonathan’s candidacy.

THE Spate of kidnappings in Edo state reared up its head yesterday in Benin as the General Manager of Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS), Mr. Tunde Ebozoje was abducted by unknown gunmen.

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday fired back at President Goodluck Jonathan, asking him to take bold and accept responsibility as the leader of the country, just as he said that accusing him was a show of shame.

AFTER over three years of legal battle, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, who contested on the platform of the Action Congress, AC has been declared winner of the April 14, 2007 governorship election.

Rotimi Amaechi versus Celestine Omehia, 26 Oct. 2007In a unanimous judgment read by the presiding judge, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, the Supreme Court, in Abuja sacked the Celestine Omehia-led administration in Rivers State and ordered that Rotimi Amaechi be sworn in immediately as governor of Rivers State.

EMINENT Nigerians yesterday described the Court of Appeal verdict on Osun State governorship tussle between Engineer Rauf Aregbesola and Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as victory for democracy.