PREPARATIONS towards making this year’s Governor Dickson Seriake of Bayelsa State Wrestling Classic a huge success are on top gear as the country’s wrestlers are red alert for the competition which runs from 24th – 29th November,2013.

Except we want to keep deceiving ourselves that is when we will say there is no fraud going on in the market, but whether we have the capacity to fight it is a question I may not be able to answer now. Not even with the presence of EFCC in the market can one be too sure that a new dawn has come to the market. Come to think of this, has EFCC been able to successfully combat corruption in other sectors of the economy where it has presence?

The Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Bishop Samuel Uche has warned all the sponsors of the Boko Haram Islamic sect as well as those behind political kidnapping and assassinations in the country to have a rethink saying contrary to their expectations, Nigeria will not disintegrate.

At an informal gathering a few months ago, discussants attempted a comparison between President Goodluck Jonathan and some of the governors in the break-away new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP). While some argued that the President and the governors are birds of the same feather as typical of Nigerian politicians, others insisted that there is obvious uniqueness that defines their individualities.

Barring the rescheduled elections in parts of Anambra State, the November 16, 2013 governorship election has come and gone. But the recurrence of the old inadequacies of a typical Nigerian election has continued to linger.