The democratic process in the last 10 years which held promise at inception in 1999 appears to have stalled and has left corruption to grow greater root in the entire system than we have ever known in Nigeria.

The country’s first President after its July 15, 1960 independence from France was Leon Mba. Popular protests and an army mutiny forced him to resign in February 1964 but within two days French paratroopers intervened and reinstated him.

There has been a deliberate attempt by the government of Nigeria to impoverish and take away the resources of the people that God has blessed and put in a very difficult terrain”…Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi

As Professor P. Ekeh once noted in “Government and Development in Nigeria” that, ‘whatever other gifts the Fulani aristocracy possess (and there are few other groups that are so well endowed in Nigeria indeed elsewhere in Africa), economic production has not been one of its strong points’.

He was a pioneering indigenous bureaucrat of distinction who started to make an indelible mark on public life during colonial rule and famed patriot whose dedication to excellence and the common good won him admirers all over this country.