Before last week’s presidential election, pundits had speculated that Akwa Ibom state would be a fierce battle ground for the two frontline political parties, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC. This expectation was largely because, former Senate Minority Leader,   Godswill Akpabio had created the impression after he decamped to the ruling party, that Akwa Ibom people were under his magical spell.

One of the biggest shocks for Nigerians during the 2019 presidential election is that President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC was defeated in Oyo state by PDP’s Atiku Abubakar.

LETTER-writing has a history that goes back thousands of years. For instance, a few surviving letters suggest it was common practice to write letters to the dead in ancient Egypt. Some of these letters were written on bowls found in Egyptian tombs. The letters often asked for help from the departed with some problem the writers were having. In the Holy Bible, there are series of letters written by Apostle Paul which is famously referred to as epistles. Letter could be overtly arresting. It often surprises and commands the attention of the reader. It connects readers to the past, conjuring images of lovers separated by continents, gas lanterns and adventure. To read, one must sit down and pay attention for a few moments, eschewing the technological world for this corner of the archaic. This is a particularly lovely gesture for a significant other, where a handwritten letter, perhaps, means the most. Write to the one you love, and they’ll not only be arrested by your words, but will feel deeply cared for, and pulled into a world of fantastical romance.

Our politicians should not do anything untoward and violent to throw Nigeria into a huge political conflagration, which can lead to its demise

It takes someone suffering from horrific hallucination to imagine that the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration that has prioritised the wellbeing of our industrious market women and other business owners, through several reforms of trade practices in the state, would hurt their interest.