Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South AT the moment, the Northwest geopolitical zone is the ruling power bloc in the country with bedridden President Umaru Yar’Adua, his wife Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua and members of his kitchen cabinet, principally from Katsina state as the power brokers.

“Umaru, are you dead? They say you are dead”. Obasanjo had put a call through to Yar’Adua at a campaign ground. This drama was staged on live television to refute rumours almost three years ago, that Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, then presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had died in the German hospital where he sought medical succour.

Nobody buys drinks for them. No man asks for a dance. Their clients are mainly young men of their age, or slightly older-20s-30s. They are casually dressed, in jeans, T-shirts and shirts flown out of their trousers. They sit, drinking their beers without female companies while the women stand away and look on.

WHAT does Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) really want? Whose interest is it championing at the moment?

A minute in that environment was killing. The odour oozing out of the place could be dangerous to one’s health.
Interestingly, the inmates rendered some choruses to welcome their guests. Dressed in a uniform orange colour clothes, they exhibited different manners of their usual acts. The co-ordinator was up and doing checking their acts employing insane measures to deal with them at different times.