APPARENTLY exasperated by the shenanigans of the Sani Abacha junta to both extend the life of their regime and, as well, transform the head of the junta into a civilian president, assassinated Attorney General of the Federation and former Minister of Justice, Bola Ige, had chosen to sit back and watch or, as he had put it in earthy pidgin, ‘siddon look’ at how things would end with the Abacha political programme and its ‘five fingers of a leprous hand’, a clear reference to the five political parties that were hurriedly clobbered together to smoothen Abacha’s transformation agenda.

THE grand charade called elections into the National Assembly, the first of the series of national elections lined for April, took place last weekend.

IN Nigeria, allegations of corruption have in recent past placed the role of election tribunal in jeopardy. Election petitions, just like the ordinary day-to-day civil cases, are intended to be dealt with by tribunals consistently, fairly without bias or partiality.

THE news last week that Katsina State governor, Ibrahim Shema and his entourage, were involved in a fatal accident probably didn’t come to many as a surprise. Several of the Governor’s aides, including his police aide-de-camp, Aminu Ibrahim, perished in the accident while at least four others sustained serious injuries.

IT was yet another instance of ‘peculiar mess’ when former PDP chieftain, Olabode George, returned home from two years incarceration for financial crimes.