Governor Fayose’s decision to run for the presidency in 2019 has predictably induced the sort of loud condemnation that should be expected from Nigerians.

“You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari, he said he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we have done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult.” Jim Yong Kim, World Bank President.

I know this bravado management style runs contrary to the cleansing operations you engaged me to carry out at the inception of your administration.

Power at the top is white hot. It is not for the timid. Leadership is also not for those contented to follow the crowd – usually of human sheep. With the 2019 elections only seventeen months away and the two major political associations – the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP – in disarray, lacking leadership, Nigeria is in deep trouble.

“The future does not belong to those who are content with today….timid and fearful in the face of new ideas and bold projects.”Late Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of President Kennedy, both killed by gunmen. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOATIONS, VBQ, p 71.

The wretched nurseries of unceasing discord and the miserable objects of universal pity and contempt”. That was the way Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804, one of the founding fathers of America described nations such as ours which were always hotbeds of political upheavals and conflict.

The report that APC Governors and Ministers favour Buhari for second term only reveals how the black man does not remember recent history. Exactly four years ago, all PDP Governors and Ministers supported Jonathan

Nigerians might not know it but a political swindle is underway. More than two years after election, the APC is just now setting up a committee to determine what Nigerians really want done

Jonathan becoming President in 2010 was unstoppable. The constitution took care of that. Jonathan elected President in 2011 was not an accident

For the Minister of a government which allowed the country to be defrauded of over N1 trillion to claim that government cannot pay N92 billion or less than one percent, is an insult to the intelligence of Nigerians and discredit to government itself

It should be obvious to both the proponents of “Resume or Resign” and the pro-Buhari elements that we are back to where we were in 2010 in many respects – except now that the situation has become more serious

Today, neither the All Progressives Congress, APC, nor the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, can be called a political party in the globally recognized sense of the word. They have become just machines established for the purpose of seizing the national treasury

Circumstances beyond his control have placed the Acting President in the awkward situation of writing and presenting a report to himself. It is unprecedented anywhere. At any rate, that is one probe which should never have been announced publicly. No nation probes its intelligence agencies openly just to appear transparent

You can’t as a lawyer campaign for the rule of law and get into office to work against it and hope to enjoy a peaceful post-office life

Buhari was not totally prepared to fulfill his promise to respect human rights. He was going to be selective and by so doing set a bad example for the people he leads