“I belong to everybody. I belong to nobody.” That was the golden statement or word on marble credited to President Muhammed Buhari, GCFR as part of his Inauguration Speech on the day of his Inauguration on Friday May 29th, 2015 at Eagle’s Square, Abuja.

For the first time in the nation’s history, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous black nation and the bedrock of the west African regional economy, suffered a nationwide blackout as the national grid totally collapsed on March 31, 2016. It was an event unheard of in the nation’s history. While the nation has always been known for epileptic power supply, this unfortunate event marked the emergence of a new low in the country’s power supply matrix. Nigeria’s minster of power, Raji Fashola, acknowledged that the nation did not have enough power to go around, attributing the problem to vandals sabotaging pipelines.

In an earlier write-up on this subject matter, a marshal point was adequately established, to wit: that the Nigerian Federation, which came into existence in 1914, and was clinically “murdered” by the metaphor of the military in 1966, though still hanging on to life till date, was actually negotiated.

It is only perhaps in Nigeria, that in the midst of hyper-inflation, hyper-unemployment, unbearable hardship, leaders will be fighting over words uttered in the hallowed Chambers of the Senate.

Even though the last general election was just a year ago, the race to occupy the Oke-Mosan Governor’s office of Ogun State has begun in an unprecedented pace. In what seems like a planned move, potential contenders have started composing campaign teams and many already mapping out strategies on how to clinch the available party’s ticket.