Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State has robust political antecedents. A lawyer by training, he was the deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He worked closely with the late President Umaru Yar’Adua when he was the governor in Katsina before succeeding him.Only recently, he was the coordinator of the north-west zone of the President Jonathan/Sambo campaign. Now, he is seeking re-election via next month’s polls

Chief Babatunde Olusola Benson, SAN, will be 79 on the 4th of July, 2011. As Secretary-General, Nigerian Bar Association, he mooted the idea of forming the African Bar Association, ABA.

Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim is a politician with a sense of history. In this interview, he takes the reader down memory lane, from the political developments in Nigeria in the first republic, down to the second republic in which he was actively involved, and the aborted third republic.Ibrahim also speaks on the formation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, as a pioneer member, the administration of Obasanjo and the ongoing political process.

Mallam Kasimu Garba Kurfi is Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the APT Securities and Funds Limited and a major player in the capital market sector of Nigerian economy.

Senator Anietie Okon is a member of the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Council. In this interview, he bares his mind on some national issues ranging from the former President Obasanjo campaign in 1999 to that of Jonathan.
He also chides the North for being an apostle of zoning just as he denies that Obasanjo was a product of zoning.