History would record that Obasanjo was wrong on both counts – especially the health report In order to avoid accepting blame for the shoddy manner he conducted the investigations he had this to say about the health report handed to him by Yar’Adua

What Nigerians receive these days, if anything at all, are statements released to the media on his behalf by those shielding him from those who took the trouble to vote for him in 2015. Quite frequently, the messages are conflicting, like the ramblings of a drunkard

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Lord Acton, 1834-1902.

GEJ lost more millions of votes on account of his uncontrollable wife than any number of votes INEC could have given to Buhari

The total rejection of Bamaiyi’s book by everybody and the torrent of abuses heaped on him would suggest the man lacked both intelligence and integrity

“In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous people seek power” —Saul Bellow. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ p 124).

Arewa Consultative Forum spokesman, Anthony Sani, reportedly repeated the Nigeria Police line on the Ile Ife clash between Yoruba and Northerners saying “criminality knows no ethnicity or religion”. I agree. But will Mr Sani tell us how many people the police arrested for killing an Igbo man in Kano and parading his severed head around? We are waiting for him and the IGP

On an occasion such as this in our national life when unprecedented events occur daily, it requires two words of wisdom from down the ages to assist us in understanding the position in which we find ourselve

As things stand now, Magu’s rejection has opened a breech between APC supporters and the general public

There will be vacancy in Aso Rock in 2019. So, if you want to be the occupant, you need to start early setting up structures in as many states as possible. You don’t need all thirty-six right away, but you need at least twelve key states

Like the last cow on the other side of the highway when others have crossed, Dasuki now receives the whip. Not necessarily because he did anything particularly wrong, but, because holders of transient power in Nigeria must have their pound of flesh

Once religious bias is accepted as government policy and a precedent is established, governments in the future will follow the examples set today. The victims are now totally unpredictable

Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy – US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1856-1941.

Buhari’s departure, for any reason whatsoever, will break the APC into warring camps. So, the nation needs Buhari, at least until 2019, more than he needs us

Americans, since the end of the Second World War, had always wondered how the most advanced people in Europe, the Germans, in the early parts of the last century could produce a monstrous leader like Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945. With the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America, they now know how in a fit of absent-mindedness bordering on lunacy, nations use their votes to appoint a crack-port as their leader. History does not repeat itself; only human beings are so stupid.