Just imagine President Goodluck Jonathan, Governors Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi and Seriake Dickson on the Abuja Airport Expressway sitting on the sidewalk at about 8:15 tomorrow morning – a Monday.

Though the issue of the rightful ownership of oil wells in the disputed area which predates the creation of Bayelsa State had been on ground, it was again brought to the front burner on Monday when the Kalabari National Forum and some monarchs went to Abuja to protest the alleged surreptitious moves by some Federal Government officials to excise five oil producing Kalabari communities of Rivers State with a view to dashing them to Bayelsa State for political reasons.

The battle between Rivers State and its neighbouring Bayelsa State, over who owns the stretch of area that generates three hundred thousand barrels of crude oil per day has left the court room. The battle is now on the streets of Port Harcourt where, on Wednesday, traditional rulers, chiefs and other prominent community leaders of Kalabari stock took to the streets in Port Harcourt protesting what they dubbed an attempt to deny them of part of their ancestry with an alleged shift in the boundary demarcating Degema Division from the old Brass Division.

For sometime now, commercial motorcycle operators are being hacked down by a special task force raised by the government to enforce the “no Okada on Lagos Highways’ Law. However, some of the riders narrated their ordeals to Saturday Vanguard

For okada riders in Lagos, the Governor Fashola has drawn the battle line as he eventually ordered enforcement of the law, banning commercial motorcycle operators from plying major highways.