Last week, I told you that all that I and most Rivers People I knew wanted for Christmas was for our President and our Governor to patch up their quarrel.

AFTER all, I was now a full-fledged SBB. Unknown to either Granduncle or Aunt, I gradually moved my belongings whatever they were to Aunt’s apartment around Decima Road. My next move was to go sleep at Aunt’s place without her knowledge.

The reason for the Christmas season is the commemoration of the glorious birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus the Christ. Although, the exact date of His birth remains an issue of great scholastic saber-rattling, one infallible truth that stands with unshakeable firmness is that Christ is the immaculate quintessence of love.

SEEING Chief Willie Obiano, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the November 16, 2013 governorship election on Sunday, November 17, 2013 when Professor James Epoke, the state returning officer in the election declared the election inconclusive, and last Wednesday when he joined some South-East and South-South governors in a group photograph after their meeting in Awka, it was obvious that he is already looking beyond tomorrow’s supplementary polls.

Osun State governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, declared that his administration will not tolerate any act of lawlessness from any group or individuals irrespective of their standing in the society.