Indeed what went wrong, as the text message asked? Interestingly, that text message represents perhaps the mildest form of dishonour attaching to the person of Yar’Adua that I have heard people voice across the land since the man and his wife departed to Saudi 69 days ago today Sunday, January 31, 2010. Many of the other insults that have been hauled in the direction of the presidency are totally unprintable.

I am used to reading about history being made when there are a hundred or thousand steps and each step is counted as a building block that led to the hall of fame where the records are stored. So there is this painstaking build-up, and accumulation of positive acts of the ones who were part of the history that was made.

The modern nation is characterized by border crossings and intermingling, by a necessarily mobile, overt and covert copulation of beings in its domain of reality which must subvert traditional affiliations if a nation must grow.

No country should ever treat its President’s illness the way we have so callously, so carelessly, handled President Umar Yar’Adua’s sickness. Seeking to clothe it in a veil of secrecy, the fragile cover devised only allowed for the emergence of a variety of speculations, suppositions and plain mischief.

On yes, no law obligates that FEC to prove to us that Yar’Adua is fit to rule, so, as demanded by the court, they have done what the constitution asked them to do – pass a banal resolution that is totally false, because unsubstantiated, that the president is in “perfect health”. So, end of story, and the pillage of the country is accelerated beyond whatever this country has ever experienced.