THIS is another season of Ghaddafi-bashing in Nigeria. There is righteous indignation in the land. The Libyan leader, Muammar Ghaddafi has given an opportunity to diverse groups to speak with one voice.

IT is this impatience with strategies and statecraft that informed the political thinking of our first generation politicians roundly outclassed by the shrewd British independence: Granting politicians with whom they sat to negotiate independence contracts.

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday last week finally put the Executive Council of the Federation out of the misery induced by the crisis of confidence that followed the yet unaccounted disappearance of President Umaru Yar’Adua since November last year.

Nobody can say exactly which constitution is working the actions of the Nigerian government since the eclipse of the Obasanjo third term aspirations. We were not sure where it is written in the Nigerian Constitution that, a serving Nigerian President, or for that matter, an Acting President, must appoint a battalion of surrogates, mainly those who helped him win elections, into the executive seats of Federal Ministers.

Laugh, if you want to. The last time I wrote, I tried to explain why I went to South Africa. One would have expected that should I have cause to do another travelogue it should be a trip to either Hawaii, the beaches and carnival fun of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil or Toyota’s Japan where I heard cars are being given out free to prove that the brakes are now working and you can do 250km per hour, commit suicide and still live to testify to the advantage the embattled motor company.