THE out-going Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the in-coming ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have the same DNA. They are siblings of the same parentage. When party politics was re-introduced by the departing military regime in 1998, the bulk of politicians decided to establish a mega party, the PDP. Shortly after, there was a migration by a dissatisfied group, and the All Peoples Party (APP) was founded.

CHIEF Ayo Adebanjo, 83, is a mobile library of Nigerian politics. A politician, journalist and lawyer, he has been actively involved in politics and electoral contestations for sixty four years. In 1954, he was appointed a full time Organizing Secretary of the Action Group, AG.

THE 2015 General election storm was expected to be rough. But the greatest fear was not before or during the turbulence; it was the anticipated after effects.

THE news hit like a thunderbolt; people were shell shocked. It had never happened before; that a national election that had commenced was being postponed. This is what in aviation circle could be called an air return; an aircraft that had taken off having to make a return to the airport for emergency reasons. In fact, an emergency situation was what the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) characterised the situation.

IN the primary school in the Lagos of the late 1960s, pupils were taught three key subjects; arithmetic, English language and social studies. For the third subject, we had two primer books on the lives of great people.