BEFORE we move on with our lives, we owe the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua this final footnote: A review of his legacy while in office. Did you notice the absence from his burial of two of his most important political partners when the journey to the presidency started in December 2006: former President Olusegun Obasanjo and new President Goodluck Jonathan, his former deputy?

DID former President Olusegun Obasanjo commit blasphemy when he spoke at the Leon H. Sullivan Dialogue on Nigeria in Washington DC last week? Let us quote him and reflect appropriately: “With all due respect, if Jesus Christ could come to the world and be the Chairman of the INEC, any election he conducted would be disputed”.

NOBODY can sack me,” he boasted, when about a year ago, when pressure mounted on the National Assembly and the Presidency to remove Professor Maurice Iwu as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

AHMAD Sani Yerima is easily the strangest and possibly most dangerous creature ever to emerge on the Nigerian political scene. He was the Governor of Zamfara State for eight long years and now occupies a prestigious seat in the Nigerian Senate. If his gamble had worked, he would have been the president of Nigeria, since he vied for that office in 2007 even though he could not make it through the presidential primaries of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP).

NIGERIA is fortunate that Babangida has chosen this moment in our history to grant an interview to the BBC saying the young generation lack the education and experience to lead Nigeria.