Politically, you know I am a founder and not a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). There is a distinction and that is why I am making it. As at today, we are about three of such founders still remaining as members on the PDP Board of Trustees. I am, therefore, a life member of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of PDP.

Senator Odion Ugbesia, a former political science lecturer, is one of the associates of Chief Tony Anenih. For more than two years after he was reportedly stopped from picking the PDP gubernatorial ticket just before the 2007 general elections, Ugbesia kept a low profile, rejecting requests for media interviews. It was not as if he was quiet in that period as he kept to his duties both as a senator and in his learning as a faithful loyalist of Anenih.

THE South South region is an area united by the oil resource generated from their lands for the sustenance of the nation’s economy. Consequently, almost all sections of the region suffer the problem of environmental degradation and pollution arising from oil exploration. They also share a common problem of political marginalization in the Nigerian state owing predominantly to their status as a minority.

First, I believe that PDP, the governor and the government are on course. There is no gainsaying that the face of Delta state you see today is different from the face of Delta of yesteryears. That can be credited to the past and present administration and of course, the PDP government of Delta state.

Adejumobi Adesola Macaulay was Commissioner for Information and Culture in the Brigadier-General Raji Rasaki military administration of Lagos State. Now, he is into private businesses as a major player in the manufacturing sector and Public Relations.

THOUGH a zone with various languages and culture the people demonstrated again at the just ended South -South zonal senate committee public hearing on amendment of the 1999 constitution that they are united by the common pain and plight they suffer in the Nigerian federation.

The quest by different po-litical power blocks in Edo State to represent the state on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is again highlighting the fractious disposition of the political class in the State.

He is an ordinary man who spent his life in the service of an ideal, and toiled for it. Chief T.E.A Salubi described him as “a most willing worker,” “quick,” “reliable” and “inherently a patriot with the greatest interest of Urhobo at heart.”

Hon Muhammad Lawal Nalado is an astute politician from Daura, Katsina, home State of former presidential candidate of the ANPP, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (Rtd). He is one politician who can not be intimidated going by his pedigree in the political setting of Nigeria.

Prominent Nigerians last Wednesday advised President Umar YarÁdua to quit office if media reports that his doctors in Saudi Arabia have asked him to do so are true.