Edo election: THE atmosphere was charged in Edo State ahead of today’s governorship election, as security agents from all indications have provided water tight security across the state.

Nothing in nature is so decried and yet so universally practiced as falsehood. A mighty, governing lie goes round the world, and has almost banished truth out of it. The greatest annoyance and disturbance of mankind has been from one of these two things, force or fraud; and force often allies with fraud. It is the tongue that drives the world before it and it is hard to assign any one thing but lying, which God and man so unanimously hate; and it is even harder to tell whether it does a greater dishonour to God, or mischief to man.

One could not help but cringe at the implied glee with which some in the social media – and indeed some corporate media – the failed attempts by notorious terror group, Boko Haram to again occupy some villages.

This is not the place to go into the details of psychology or how your unconscious mind can influence you without you realizing it. If you have been following me for a while, you know you can’t just focus on your body, you have to focus on your mind and emotions because they drive your hormones.

Today’s governorship election in Edo State was supposed to be among 19 candidates, but more attention, has, however, been on the two major candidates, Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.