THE tradition of intellectual inquiry in Nigeria, in at least, the last 30 years has been at best self-indulgent and unadventurous.

To be quite candid, not being a lawyer and after reading what various lawyers have said about the senate action, I don’t really know. This is one of those matters on which the majority might not even be right. What has been done is certainly expedient but whether it is constitutional or not will eventually be determined by the courts because there is little doubt in my mind that the action will be challenged. Yar’Adua is to blame.

Last Tuesday’s resolution which captured President Umaru Yar‘Adua’s BBC interview as a transmission to the National Assembly of his medical incapacitation may have stretched the limits of reasoning. But it undoubtedly was a definite solution to the constitutional logjam that befell the country.

If Nigeria had been a pregnant woman she would now be in line for congratulations on her safe delivery. What should have been a routine administrative act was manipulated and inflated into a near-constitutional crisis, which widely demeaned the state of our nation. But, at last, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan is the Acting President.

Do our good readers remember the above title? That was the theme of the controversial documentary by former Vice President of the United States of America, Al Gore on climate change.