WHAT would have been described as a very dark weekend for the Executive Secretary, Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, Engr Mohammed Sani Alhassan was quickly averted.

*President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan – his actions and inactions are going to largely determine the future of Nigeria in the coming months
*Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo – Nigerians would be watching his moves and attempt to compare his role as vice president with the likes of Atiku Abubakar and Jonathan

There is always a temptation in the affairs of men which makes them see what is right as wrong and what is wrong as being right. There are things that are acceptable by Nigerian standards and yet, there are things that may be right but not acceptable. The crisis of leadership that has confronted Nigeria since independence but which became grandly accentuated in the last 365 days and which, judging from present signals may attain new heights in the next 365 days, is the inability of Nigerian leaders to properly locate that nexus between being seen as a strong and firm leader and doing what is right on the one hand, and being naïve and contrite yet, believing that personal interests aggregate national interests.

Reported moves by the ruling PDP to dump its zoning arrangement ahead of the 2011 elections have triggered frenzied consultations by the northern political class with a view to protecting the political interest of that part of the country.

The Cabal that held Nigeria hostage made up of the following individuals

*Late President Umaru Yar’Adua, whose illness incapacitated him from running Nigeria well.

*Turai, wife, first lady, powerful, not new to power games; some feel she’s over-bearing but others insist she simply stakes her claim in her husband’s affairs; very visible, kept President Yar’Adua away from public glare since he was flown out of the country to Saudi Arabia on November 23, 2009; and determined who should have access to the President.