Perhaps the place to start is to thank Idris for the message. It is the sort of text message which engages the columnist in dialogue in a manner that would make it impossible to hide – if he accepts the challenge contained in the message. I gladly accept because we are at a crossroad in our history and anybody who has an idea must place them on the table for all to read and either accept or reject – based on the merits of the arguments.

“Trust is a matter of bets about future actions based on experience. A track record of keeping promises is a good predictor”. Rosabeth Kanter, Editor, Harvard Business Review; Sept-October 1992. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 252).

“Let me seize this opportunity to assure all Nigerians that I feel the pains that you all feel”. President Goodluck Jonathan’s address to the nation after subsidy removal. Permit me, Mr President of Nigeria, on behalf of my constituency, the “Area Boys of Nigeria”, to wish you a pleasant 2012 – if you deserve it.

To this Barbara Tuchmann, the leading authority on thirteenth and fourteenth century Europe had added: “History does not repeat itself; man does”. President Goodluck Jonathan and his government on one side and the Nigerian Labor movement as well as civil society groups had just taken the entire country through the same rigmarole we have experienced before each time a government had increased the price of petrol.

“When those in office regard the power vested in them as personal prerogatives, they inevitably enrich themselves , promote their families, favour their friends. The fundamental structures of the modern state are eroded Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s Prime Minister.

Last Sunday, January 1, 2012, the first part of this series of articles ended as follows: “SUBSIDY IS GONE. Hardship begins!!!!” The next day Nigerians woke up to discover that, while they slept, the government they elected in April 2011, had stabbed them in the back.

If you voted for “Jonathan not PDP” in the April elections, then you have no moral right to complain about fuel subsidy removal. When you vote a candidate; you simultaneously vote for a set of policies and programmes. It is merely stupid to want to separate the two.

By all standards u qualify as a Senior Citizen of Lagos State..I dnt believe u had a deep thought of what u might be igniting before u write on d Christian Governorship thing in Lagos. Please it takes a slip from people with followership like u to start what they cannot finish as there are millions out there to highjack noble talks and put the state on fire. I am a Christian.. Lagos needs peace for development than who is the Gov. Muslim of Christian…”.

If there are people not surprised that ASUU is back on strike, they are the faculty and students of UniJankara – Seat of Street Wisdom. We don’t blow grammar like the Professors of ASUU do, but we know when we are dealing with con-men – even if they are called Presidents and Vice-Presidents.

An elderly and wise man like you should not incite people in matter of religion in Lagos. Do not create crisis in Lagos. We Lagosians are peace loving people.