“I never said that I was joining APC. I said that at my age I should be an elderly statesman and will no longer play partisan politics. At 89 why should I be playing partisan politics? What is most important to me is the interest of Nigeria. I’m ready to go to prison for the interest of Nigeria. I should be able to advise the younger ones on the interest of Nigeria.”

The view of many Nigerians is that President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list read out by Senate President Bukola Saraki did not worth the long wait. But Constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Robert Clarke, has a different view.

Captain of industry, Mr. Gamaliel Onosode, Passed on last week. The eldest son of the deceased, Ese, in this interview, speaks on the life and times of the man fondly called ‘the boardroom giant’.

Kingsley Kuku, immediate past Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, is one of the promotes of the Niger Delta struggle, having been part of the Kaiama Declaration of 1998, which set the stage for the agitation for a better region, and having participated actively in most of the programmes that subsequently resulted in the granting of amnesty to militants on June 25, 2009.

It is not easy to rule a country with such diversities. But in spite of this, what is more important is that we have made progress and we pray that as we continue, we will make substantial progress. We need to be together and be united and we ought to turn our diversities into our strength.