By Sunday Garuba The elections are around the corner, and again, the hysteria that usually greets such exercises has rented the air. There has been lots of politicking going on around the country. Political strategists and analysts are at their best-giving situations and scenarios that would shape the outcome of the elections. In all of […]

The attention was not so much on what he said, though what he said was weighty; in fact too serious and thought provoking to be ignored.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode would go down in the political history of Lagos State as a rare politician with the heart of kindness; even when an average politician would nag or turn grumpy, the civil servant-turned-politician stayed afloat and focused while campaigning for his party’s governorship candidate in the 2019 elections in the state, Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu.

As the general elections approach, it is time yet again for politicians, both old and new, to sell their candidatures.

My path and that of the  late Pastor Power ZiakedeAginighan crossed first in 1971 when he met me in St. Vincent’s College (SVC), Okwagbe in Ughelli South LGA. I was in form four when he got admitted. But he spent only one or two years before he left for St. Brendan’s College, Bomadi.