Very careful watchers of Imo politics, after the July 16, 2010, landmark judgment of the Supreme Court, predicted that the political pendulum had finally tilted in favour of the State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim.

THE test of strength between rival groupings within the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and how it ended during the party’s last national congress at Abuja may have pointed to the direction the crisis-ridden party’s primaries would go.

The time has come for people of our generation to take a plunge and liberate Nigeria from the woods. Those who ruled us in the past and disappointed us should not be given a chance to come back because they had their chance and failed. Our generation should be given the chance to lead Nigeria and this is the change that we desire and we believe we can

When you talk about age, it is really the opposite in some of the countries where they won’t elect somebody that is below 70, and that also reflects in investing in the human capital; so, the people prefer experienced hands who can deal with people who are in their upper 60s and lower 70s and higher 70s as their leaders.

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Northern Union (UN) are racing against time: they have just two weeks to produce the consensus candidate for the primaries, which will hold across the nation between September 11 and October 30th.