With the exit of Chief Tony Anenih as the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the role of godfathers in our politics has again been brought into focus.

One of those few Nigerians well grounded in the nefarious and technically slippery Nigerian oil terrain is the Managing Director of Capital Oil, IfeanyiUbah. He is a colossus in the industry, mostly at the downstream sector. He has invested heavily in the promotion of the trade. He knows all the department of the sector. He has made stupendous wealth from moving the “black gold” product from one place to another. Yes, the gossip in some quarters is that the man, by this trade, is richer than his home state of Anambra in the South East of Nigeria.

The wind of Change whose silent whistle emerged on March 28, 2015 finally reached its crescendo, when General Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as the fifth democratically elected president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He hardly grants media chats because of the sensitive nature of his office. When he speaks, it is with bluntness and sincerity delivered with deliberate measurement. He knows that he can be misquoted out of mischief or ignorance.

On the fictionally derived blackmail that Nigerians voted for “change” and not for “anti-corruption”, an irritating clamour has arisen from a rabble of interest groups for President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore corruption and concentrate rather on delivering “change”! Instructively, many of these loudmouths simply cannot bring themselves to acknowledge Buhari as a hero and embrace him as President.

He literally barged in on the political consciousness of the Lagos political mainstream, almost turning to shreds its well known uncompromising proclivity to doing business with only those schooled and weaned by the denizens of the old political establishment. In sum, you must have been in the eye of the people and have a track record.

Prof. Attahiru Jega’s INEC had a disastrous showing in Abia State, in the governorship election. The wishes and aspirations of the people, who had clamored for change in the state, were thwarted by some unscrupulous INEC staff, in collaboration with the PDP. It is only in Abia State that all the contested positions and declared results by INEC are in contention and vigorously challenged in the election tribunals.

I have pondered on the rot that made some people to refer to Nigeria as a failed state and I came to the conclusion that the problem lies not only in the hands of our leaders, but also in the formation of the country. The geometrical decline of the infrastructures and the socio-economic welfare of the citizens call for stock taking, re assessment of our value and charting new strategies for a fresh start.

Nigeria became a top drawer when she joined the league of crude oil exporters in 1958. With that achievement, Shell d’Arcy, the company that first struck oil, took significant move to construct the first Port Harcourt refinery in 1965.

Muhammadu Buhari, MB, is now the President; APC the ruling party. Change is here, and we remain grateful to God for the peace in our country, Nigeria. It is time to help, to contribute so that this change translates to good governance which what we all expect from our political leaders, irrespective of their parties. We expect peace and those good things of life which citizens of other nations take for granted, but are luxuries in Nigeria.

DR Goodluck Jonathan and his fellow Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, travellers at the helm of affairs have joined the ranks of ‘yesterday’s men’, to quote his Senior Special Adviser, Media, Dr. Reuben Abati, who famously coined the controversial phrase. Today’s men are now in the All Progressives Congress, APC, Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

As many Nigerians were still savouring the historic victory of General Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential polls, oil marketers in the country began to grumble over alleged unpaid subsidy claims. Like a joke, it began but within few weeks their threats began to materialize.

The above statement reportedly originated from a letter Julius Caesar wrote to the Roman Senate around 46 BC, after achieving victory against Pharnaces II of Pontius at the Battle of Zela.

AS our nation, Nigeria, undergoes a political watershed in her history with the first transfer of power from an incumbent to the opposition, the concept of CHANGE has assumed a new position in the psyche of Nigerians. It is now seen as the bedrock of that metamorphosis. It all began when the All Progressives Congress, APC, the party of the new President, crested to victory on the slogan of change as the vehicle that will dismantle the present dystopia to usher in a new Eldorado.

WHEN in December 1983 Muhammadu Buhari took over as Nigeria’s Head of State in a military coup that ended the four- year rule of Shehu Shagari, his regime signalled a return to the authoritarian dictates of military politics after a hiatus of just four years. The no-nonsense rule that Buhari and his stern deputy, Tunde Idiagbon, established was supposedly modelled on the equally no-nonsense regime of Murtala Mohammed that had been terminated nearly a decade before.