When the Federal Executive Council passed a resolution some two weeks ago confirming that the president is in good health, and therefore can govern, the whole country had thought that it would be a matter of days before Mr. President would resume at his duty post in Aso Rock. But the man is still absent!! What’s really going on? Why is anybody or group of people afraid to let a constitutionally identified individual act on behalf of this president, temporarily, until he is well enough to be at his duty post? Why is the FEC so timid over doing what’s right in the present circumstances?

If in 10 years of democracy (since 1999) we cannot put a solid finger on any positive, life-enhancing benefit that the hopeless refrain of deregulation has brought to Nigeria, (Except the massive rip-off called GSM), why should anybody want to persuade us that deregulation – especially in the oil sector – would make any difference to our lives in this tragic country?

What on paper looks so simple to do, in respect of the President’s health and governance of Nigeria has assumed a proportion greater than a herculean task for otherwise intelligent politicians of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP.

The impression people have is that the most of current bunch of people in politics are in it not for what they can do for, or give to society, but for what “spoils” and “loot” they can milk off our sick political environment.

The nation’s political atmosphere is heating up unnecessarily over the issue of President Yar’Adua’s ill-health. This is putting the entire question into a negative perspective altogether.