When the whistle for the race was blown, all manner of people indicated interest to contest the election on the platform of the party such that before the primaries to select a candidate for the party, no fewer than 50 aspirants paid the mandatory N5 million fixed by the leadership of the party. And when it became obvious that the party was going to settle for the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, most of the aspirants swore never to work for him, despite overtures he made to them.

Nigerians should be patriotic for once. Nigerians should believe in Nigeria. We should believe in our Constitution. Everything should not be North/South. People like Zik didn’t talk about the East. He talked about Nigeria. Why do we talk about the Ziks of Nigeria? It is because we know what he stood for; he was not a tribal champion. We should not speak about the North/South divide all the time whenever issues like this come up.

By Ise-Oluwa Ige Last Tuesday, members of the two chambers of the National Assembly passed a special resolution pursuant to section 145 of the 1999 constitution, empowering Dr Jonathan Goodluck to act as the President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Achuzia warned that Dr. Jonathan should not retain any person that has the ability of stabbing him at back later in the federal cabinet and urged him to examine the membership closely and do the “right thing” by removing them.
“The next thing I expect the Acting President to do is to pray to God for wisdom to see that the issue of security is tackled.

If something is very strange and it is not efficacious, the doctrine of necessity will save that. The doctrine of efficacy means all the instruments of coercion and administration must accept and fall in line with the doctrine of necessity.