FEBRUARY 16, 2019 has become a date Nigerians may never forget in their calendars. It was indeed an exceptionally ‘inactive’ Saturday in history: without any wedding ceremonies, launchings, burials or any events across the nation. Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had scheduled the Presidential and National Assembly elections on the date, but at the 11th hour dashed the high hopes of the populace who had waited earnestly to either renew or reassign mandates to candidates of their choice.

We find it most insulting to the sensibilities of Nigerians that those who pillaged our resources, raped our treasury and destroyed our country due to their incurable addiction to corruption and fanatical dedication to mismanagement have the nerve to ask our people to return them to power.

BRANCH networks in premier business districts, traditionally believed to measure the stature of financial providers, are being replaced with internet banking, payment apps and short-code banking. Technology has enabled non-traditional financial players upend branch networks typically dominated by large financial providers; with newer, nimbler entrants such as Interswitch and Paystack processing more online transactions than Nigeria’s biggest banks.

With his latest outing of envy and hatred against President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has finally confirmed our suspicion that because he could not succeed with his third term agenda, no other Nigerian President should ever be allowed to get a second term in office so that in his twisted worldview, he will always stand heads and shoulders above any other Nigerian leader.

Unless we take our destiny in our own hands, it would appear that wonders from the theater of the absurd are destined to remain our lot in this country for nothing else might explain the utter self-contradiction characterising the rabble of daily bread politicians now allied to railroad Alhaji Atiku Abubakar into office against reason and all common sense.