Adedeji Doherty is a chairmanship aspirant for the Lagos State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and organising Secretary for the South-West.

Major-General Adeyinka Adebayo (rtd), 85, is a former military governor of the defunct Western Region in whose time Chief Obafemi Awolowo was released from prison and made to join the General Yakubu Gowon government as Federal Commissioner for Finance and Vice Chairman of the Federal Executive Council. Adebayo, a civil war general and President, Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), spoke, in this interview at his Ikeja GRA, Lagos home, on how the release of the former premier of Western Region happened, the state-of-the-nation, the security challenges facing Nigeria, corruption and the South- West integration programme

Dr Pius Odubu is the Deputy Governor of Edo State. Penultimate Monday, he marked his 25th marriage anniversary and birthday in Benin-City with over two hundred children from different orphanages. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, led other lawmakers to attend the ceremony at Odubu’s official residence in the GRA, Benin-City. In this interview, the Deputy Governor explains why he married on his birthday, life in politics and his belief in Benin tradition.

As an expert on the nation’s constitution and military laws, Idada noted that the declaration would not stand the test of time, just as he projected that if applied, it would politicise the Armed Forces and threaten the security of the nation.

Emmanuel Nuhu Kure is the National Secretary of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, but based in Kafanchan, Kaduna State where he is the pastor of Throneroom Ministry, Recently, he was in Lagos for a programme at the National Stadium, and took time off to speak with Sunday Vanguard. Excerpts of interview…..

Dr, Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, is a politician and business mogul whose interests cut across national boundaries. In this no-holds-barred interview, he bares his mind on his plans for 2015, Njiko Igbo and the plight of Igbos in the polity for the past 53 years.

…Says Jonathan should drop his 2015 ambition
PRIMATE Theophilus Olabayo, 67, founder of Evangelical Church of Yahweh with headquarters in Mende, Maryland, Lagos, had remained one of Nigeria’s respected prophets whose prophesies had shaken the high and mighty in the country. In this interview, the cleric says there would be a spiritual revolution that will rock the nation to its foundation and at the end of it, a new nation will emerge. Excerpts:

Senator Nimi Barigha- Amange, from Bayelsa State, in this interview, speaks on the face-off between President Goodluck and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, and says governors must be loyal to their party.

Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State recently had an interactive session with media men in the State where he spoke on various issues nagging the polity.Peter Duru was there and reports Excerpts:

MIKE Igini is the Cross River State Resident Electoral Commissioner. In this interview, he calls for the decentralization of the policing system in Nigeria, adding that it would assist current efforts at fighting insecurity. He also frowns at any form of appropriation that is not vetted.

Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, is an old war horse in politics. The time- two former governor of the old Bendel State has been abroad for medical check-up and broke his silence on political issues to Sunday Vanguard last Wednesday. While declaring the support of the leaders of the South-south for second term for President Goodluck Jonathan, the former military tactician explained why the North is not entitled to the presidency until 2027.
And contrary to the statement by the PDP that Governor Adams Oshiomhole begged to join the party prior to the 2007 and 2012 governorship election in Edo State, Ogbemudia disclosed how he led some PDP leaders to appeal to Oshiomhole to join the party, but the plea was turned down by the former labour leader. He spoke on other national issues.

A black-clad gunman killed at least four people in a shooting rampage in the US state of California Friday, before police shot him dead in a college library, officials said.

Professor Julius Ihonvbere is a renowned political activist, as a matter of fact one of those who fought doggedly in wrestling power from the military. He was the former Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Programmes Monitoring and Project Implementation.

Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark has great credentials: a lawyer, an administrator, Ijaw national leader, a nationalist, a freedom fighter and leader, South South Peoples Assembly. He was Commissioner for Education, Mid-Western Region, 1968-71; Commissioner for Finance and Establishment, Bendel State, 1972-75; Federal Commissioner for Information, 1975; and senator, 1979-83. In this interview, the Kiagbodo born elder statesman, who turned 86 recently, bares his mind on Nigeria then and now. Excerpts:

Is it not amazing and amusing that 20years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, leaders of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last week, engineered the annulment of the chairmanship election of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF? In 1993, Bashorun MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, defeated Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention, NRC, but the announcement of the results was ordered suspended by an Abuja High Court (which the law had barred from entertaining the suit). This is Nigeria where anything can and, thus, happen!