September 10, 2016, is epochal in the history of the great Edo State. It is a date when life beckons on the people to embark on a game-changing and life-amending venture; a time when the people are called out by the Benevolent, the God of second chance, to right the wrong they elevated to a position of authority and immense responsibility eight years ago.

THE way things are going in Edo State in the campaigns to the forthcoming governorship election, there is this fear by independent observers that it will not be conducted in a free and fair manner.

Yet as hard as the Obama/Clinton/Kerry triumvirate may try to cover it up, it appears that the message about the real situation in Buhari’s Nigeria is beginning to get across to the world.

THIS is election season in Edo State and it turns out that the so-called progressives in attempting to gain advantage over the PDP, have chosen to stand history and truth on their heads. The situation is not helped by a fawning and uncritical media. It is heavily bought off to play vile megaphone roles. Thus the media has jettisoned its mandatory role of being the information choice, the critical voice and a discerning institution as a neutral umpire and a truth teller.

THE rowdiness in the Court was unusual – the day Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was declared Governor in 2008 – this was after both petitioners and defendants in an election petition made appearances at the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City. Suddenly, Comrade Oshiomhole poked his head through the roof of a black SUV heading southwards from the Appeal Court and surveyed what he had wrought – sweet victory; no orphan.