IT did not sound real. When I read in the papers that the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari, was considering Pastor Tunde Bakare as his presidential running mate, my mind did not dwell on it for more than a few moments because I thought the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and Convener of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) would quickly call a press conference and give an emphatic answer: “No”.

THE Nigerian government led by President Goodluck Jonathan appears to be leading the push for the forceful ousting of the government of President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire.

WHILE I was still on vacation, an anonymous source sent an interesting text message to me. It reads: “Tinubu’s democracy in action! His wife, Remi Tinubu, picks the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) senatorial ticket of Lagos Central. His daughter, Sade Tinubu, picks the ticket for Lagos State Assembly, Agege Constituency and Tinubu’s son in-law Oyetunde Ojo, House of Reps! Lola Akande, Remi’s elder sister, House of Assembly. Lagosians must resist this impostor and self-acclaimed custodian of democracy…”

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s effort to grab the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ended in a bitter climax last week Thursday, January 13, 2011, at the Eagle Square, Abuja. Actually, a number of anti-climaxes.

“(Nigeria) is a strange country – its own political, intellectual and economic leadership are paid agents of other nations” – Obi Nwakanma, in his column, The Orbit in Sunday Vanguard, December 10th 2010.
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