The three books are entitled: The Courage to Challenge; Challenging New Frontiers and Pushing the Limits. While the first is a free-flowing narrative of his uncommon and miraculous journey to the seat of Governor of Imo State, the others reflect his words and actions on the said seat. The Ohakim story, especially as encapsulated in The Courage to Challenge is one worth telling or recalling because without the courage to challenge there will be no “miracles”.

EVERY other day on this column we lament the scourge of poor quality leaders who straddle the commanding heights of our public affairs. “Poor quality” does not necessarily mean low educational background or that the person involved does not have impressive academic certificates. After all, many of our poor quality leaders, like the man in the news today, are holders of post-graduate degrees.

Obama’s purpose of visiting Ghana was different from the objective of former President Clinton which Professor Aminu rightly referred to. Clinton sought partners in Africa to help fight hunger, disease (especially HIV and malaria) and to alleviate poverty by pushing through the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA).

When the crisis in the state took a turn whereby the political interests of Governor Daniel and Alausa were no longer in uniform alignment, Alausa deserted and joined Daniel’s enemies. In anger and retaliation, Daniel decided to expose Alausa and caused his newspaper to spin the yarn that it did with such relish that Monday.

The prebendary elite are only interested in sharing the revenue allocated to the state or at least being allowed to control sources of internal revenue that should be deployed to solving its problems.