Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s success as one of Nigeria’s most successful labour leaders is a fact that would remain etched in the annals of the country’s labour movement.

How the Ambode Treatment turned into a catchy anecdote in Nigeria’s political phraseology is one that associates of the outgoing governor of Lagos State will rue for a long time to come. Nevertheless, the episode that made Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to be the first governor of Nigeria’s most populous state to be stopped from seeking re-election is one that is bound to escalate in the near future. It would indeed, turn into a learning curve in fashioning relationships between sitting governors and godfathers who help them into office.

In the last week, your correspondent has watched from close quarters the unfolding debate in the United Kingdom over the country’s relationship with Europe; or the continent, as mainstream Europe is referred to here by British aristocrats.

The claim that President Muhammadu Buhari desires harmony with the forthcoming National Assembly was one of the revelations that came from the get-to-know session with All Progressives Congress, APC members elected into the National Assembly last Monday.

Aides and supporters of the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were until not too long ago, claiming that the spate of inconclusive elections did not start with its administration.

The 20-day ordeal of political activist, Austin Okai in the hands of the Department of State Services, DSS in Kogi State, is another telling indication that humility is a virtue that is rare for many politicians.

These are not the best of times for Rt. Hon. Chibuke Amaechi. Though he is the campaign manager of the president, whatever is the outcome would surely not soothe the bitter pill he is being forced to swallow in his native Rivers State.

Today, Nigerians go to the polls to give their referendum on the four-year stewardship of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

About four years ago just after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lost the 2015 general election, the death pangs of the party whose officials once boasted it would rule for 50 years were felt all around the polity.

With the controversy arising from the suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria still raging, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo last Tuesday symbolically took flight to the increasingly endangered Lake Chad.

It was revealing when Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo confessed in an interview with the BBC that he was like all men, a sinner.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s assertion to unruly legislators last Wednesday that the world was watching them was one of the most poignant utterances from him in recent times.

Only few would have been shocked by Mr. Adebayo Shittu’s claim that he would be a bastard to be seen supporting his party’s candidate in the 2019 governorship election in Oyo State.

If anyone needed proof of the damage politics has done to the spiritual orientation of Nigerians, the recent encounter between Father Ejike Mbaka and Mr. Peter Obi would certainly be a good referral.

The true story of the dramatic encounter between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Ibn Garbai Elkanemi in Maiduguri last Wednesday took almost 48 hours to seep out.