Engr.Solomon Edebiri is the National Chairman of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) and he is one of the young breed politicians gunning for the governorship of Edo State in 2012. Edebiri in this interview with Vanguard, commended the National Assembly for settling the constitutional crisis that arose as a result of the ill-health of President Umaru Yar’Adua.

The events that led to the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan were as curious as ithey were intriguing both for the actors and for those who watched from the sidelines. In this interview with Hugo Odiogor, Deputy Political Editor, Professor Akin Oyebode, who teaches Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, bared his mind on the constitutionality and legality of the issue. He also spoke other national matters.

Senator Matthew Mbu Jnr was a member of the Senate from 1999-2003. In this interview with Vanguard, he said that though the decision by the National Assembly to empower the Vice President to act as President has lowered tension in the country, the National Assembly must, however, move a styep futher to conform with constitutional provision to compel the Federal Executive Council to declare the president not fit to continue in office

In the 1950s and 1960s, the main agenda of the Ekiti people was education.
So high was education on the priority list of Ekiti, then in the Western Region, that virtually every household had a professor.

The Constitution provided that if the President is indisposed, the Vice President has to take over as Acting President. That ought to have been done much earlier and there was actually no basis for all the controversy. It was just that human beings were trying to circumvent the spirit of the Constitution. What has happened is not unusual. It happens in every democracy in the world.