I did 200metres rope climbing to the top of a platform once. It was suicidal. When the boys heard that the Governor-General had arrived, they stopped what they were doing. How many have I not done? You don’t pay ransom – ransom for what? They released the hostages. What makes you think that you are more Niger Deltan than me?

You needed to have seen Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, the former governor of Bayelsa State. In this very first tell-all interview with Sunday Vanguard, Alamieyeseigha discloses some disturbing truths about former President Olusegun Obasanjo and what actually led to his travails. Sober but not condescending, Alamieyeseigha admitted that mistakes may have been made but that they were made on the platform of expediency.

South Africa recently held its Election without the storm of protest that usually trails elections in places like Nigeria. Mrs Papela a member of the South African electoral Commission told Saturday Vanguard in an interview recently what they do to electoral offenders. Enjoy it.

I believe very clearly that the crisis has persisted over the years because of very bad governance, both at the national and state levels- governments that are insincere, inefficient, ineffective and buried in corruption.

There are no two ways about it. If you refuse to surrender to God, and you’re rebelling against God, of course, everything will be working against you and you’ll not have peace. There will be curses. Because I was rebelling against God, I was just living on my own, depending on my self and then, I couldn’t do anything right.