For the past eight years, every 4th of August (except last year’s), had resounded in Oghara, Ethiope-West LGA of Delta State as Chief James OnanefeIbori’s political followers would mark his birthday. Remarkably,Iboriwas not even in Nigeria then.

What more describes failure than when a government cannot protect the lives and property of those under its watch?

The issue of multiple terms is not new in Nigeria’s politics. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo took it to new heights when he was alleged to infamously “coerce” both willing and unwilling senators in his failed bid to secure a third presidential term.

Much has been said about political  leadership in states of the federation and in the Nigerian nation-state in the contexts of good and bad leaderships.  The essential prisms through which to appreciate leadership could be philosophical or ideological, spiritual or temporal, economic or political, social or cultural

I KNEW that Muhammadu Buhari didn’t represent any sort of change with the tiniest chance of improving the lot of Nigerians. I knew also that people of my education and perspective knew that to have a man with scant redeeming qualities at the helm of Nigerian affairs would represent a tragic setback for the entity. It didn’t surprise me, though, that during 2015 a legion of informed Nigerians ate up incredible media space promoting as sterling what they knew or ought to have known was meretricious. It was all Buhari blah, blah; Buhari blah, blah, blah; Buhari blah, blah, blah, blah.