NOT being a lawyer, I am leaving the legalisms of this matter to lawyers and judges. But as a private citizen with a strong viewpoint, I am saying NO to the verdict of Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court of Abuja, which on February 23, 2011, ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should not conduct governorship elections in five states because the tenures of their incumbent governors had not expired.

THERE was no way that Professor Maurice Iwu would have been a credible electoral umpire. His naked political adventurisms before, during and even now after his sojourn as the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) suggest that he could not have been an unbiased umpire.

THERE is hardly a better word for the phenomenon than tragedy. The two organs of the Federal Government created to construct and maintain federal roads nationwide have, in their abject failure to deliver on their mandates, thrown the nation into untold misery, and oftentimes mourning.

THE ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wanted to turn Chief Olabode George’s return from prison to a great political opportunity. They chose to portray it as the “heroic triumph” of the former Deputy National Chairman of the Party over his travails.

BASED on our concluding statement in last edition of this topic that the South East has the highest quota of outwardly migrant population, the South West being the biggest destination, the question before us is: why? The answer is that Igbo people were forced into this migratory sociology due to paucity of land space which is largely tucked away inland.