I had made up my mind to go to town on our football administrators when Hannah called me at about 6.10 am on February 24 to inform me that the President had arrived from Saudi Arabia. The news was on AIT.

I said last week that by his assumption of duty as Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has become, de facto, the sole administrator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This means that he is right up there being the only person in the executive arm that was elected.

Tension is less in the land now that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has assumed office as Acting President. That is after 78 days when the simple procedure that would have led us to that position had been ignored. And what did we do? It seemed as if we dreamt that if we failed to do something, just anything, by the end of the 78th day of the President’s absence from office and out of sight, something would give.

I am used to reading about history being made when there are a hundred or thousand steps and each step is counted as a building block that led to the hall of fame where the records are stored. So there is this painstaking build-up, and accumulation of positive acts of the ones who were part of the history that was made.

They have emerged again with rerouting of constitutional provisions to achieve ends that will definitely backfire. But the one I am sorry for, if he falls for the trap, is Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

Nigeria is the irritant. An irritant may not accept that it is one. But the tag is supplied by those who look at you, watch what you are doing and smile if you vibrate on the same wavelength as they; or you make them want to throw up by what you do.

Nigeria is the irritant. An irritant may not accept that it is one. But the tag is supplied by those who look at you, watch what you are doing and smile if you vibrate on the same wavelength as they; or you make them want to throw up by what you do.

THE Nigeria Bar Association, the Senate of the National Assembly, the Nigerian Press, Civil Society bodies and all others who have a stake in fighting for and ensuring the supremacy of the constitution must rise as one body and ask for the resignation or, if he fails to quit, then the removal of our minister of justice and attorney-general of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa for stubbornly seeking legal subterfuges to undermine the clear provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

IT is very embarrassing indeed if and when a public officer articulates a position that is not grounded on set rules and procedures. That public officer ends up having what we call a bad press. The tragic outcome is that one with a bad press leaves behind a record that is distorted even if otherwise credible.

The structures we have would win for us a gold medal if having them was all that was needed to judge them. America does not even have them – huge cars and convoys for public officers and their dependants; full time pay for all cadres of public officers for no jobs done; billions sunk into buying aircraft for use of heads of the organs of government.