It has been used often to conjure the spectre of discrimination to attract sympathy for a just claim and, at times, for an unmerited advantage. One can hardly fault that stance though, since self-love is hardly as unprofitable as self-neglect.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is free to contest the presidential election next year. The Peoples Democratic Party, his party, announced the decision in tandem with the affirmation that its “zoning” policy remains intact.

Why must we continue to do everything in an untidy manner? It seems we never learn.

Maybe one should also briefly touch on the “encounter on the bridge” in Ogun State recently. There we saw a State Governor wantonly refer in derogatory terms to no less than the Speaker of the House of Representatives. He called the “fourth gentleman on the realm” his “Aburo” which in Yoruba means a younger relation, but can be derogatorily applied to connote inferiority or even inconsequentiality.

There was hardly any newspaper that you could open recently, without reading about yet another group of politicians, civil society, ethnic group or plain opportunists endorsing the candidacy of President Goodluck Jonathan. The gentleman is yet to announce it, but no matter; several people have done that for him already.