Perhaps, the declaration of Ugwuanyi as re-elected governor of Enugu state may not have come to anyone as a surprise.

I had not planned to do a sequel to the article that was published under this title by the  Vanguard  on Saturday, March 16 but I have read comments made by our Yoruba brothers that cannot be left unanswered, not to defend, justify or fortify the positions I had attached my name to but to clarify. Let us get the identity matter out of the way first.

A certain Femi Oyeweso, probably writing under a pseudonym, in the Leadership newspaper a week ago, went on a mission to justify the injustice done to the governorship ambition of Akinlade in Ogun State. Rather than concentrate on the issues of the election and the electoral process, he went on a tangent.

‘TO whom much is given, much is expected”is a universal maxim. The Bible in the Gospel of Luke 12:48 affirmed it. By Section 130 (1) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, which established the office of President, the first mandate given to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 expires on May 29, 2019. Since Section 135 (1); “Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a person shall hold the office of President until – (a) when his successor in office takes the oath of that office”, forbids a vacuum, President Buhari having been declared the winner of the February 23- presidential poll will on May 29, once again take the oath of office for the next political dispensation lapsing in 2023.

PHOTOGRAPHS and videos depicting Buhari-supporting underage voters in the North have gone viral online and are now part of our electoral iconography.