Politics is a game; it is a contest; it is competition for power. Every human being is said to be a political animal and, therefore, politics can not be extricated from the affairs of men (and women). So, in the push and shove of daily live, men and women are engaged in a perpetual struggle to outdo one another. To tame the animalistic instincts in every creature, man employs his intellect to create rules for the contest. Those rules are meant to be followed to the letter.

After six months of intense legal fireworks on the petition urging holistic judicial probe of the conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, pertaining to the April 16 presidential election that favoured the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate President Goodluck Jonathan, one would have expected the adjudicating body to properly scrutinize every shred of evidence adduced by the contending parties, no matter how stupid it may seem, before passing judgment.

Odumegwu-Ojukwu mostly defies description. It is a quality that delights him, another is his intellectual fecundity, enthused into their solid frames at some of the best schools in the world. He never made too much of them but when he spoke, people knew he had been to places.

Yet to convince Nigerians of his sincerity on how the funds generated from the removal of the subsidy on petrol would be deployed, President Goodluck Jonathan is being buffeted by a confetti of opposition.

Subsidy removal will free N1.2 trillion in savings part of which can be deployed in providing safety nets for poor segments of the society to ameliorate the effects of the subsidy removal
–President Goodluck Jonathan.