I never believed that true life is stranger than fiction until I read the case of Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, the young man who named his dog after his hero, Buhari, only to be arrested and detained by the Nigerian Police on the excuse that his actions were likely to breach the prevailing peace in his community of Sango-Ota, Ogun State.

A group, under the umbrella of Concerned Owerri Indigenes, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari accusing the Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha of victimising the indigenes of Owerri by demolishing several buildings in the old Owerri city while nothing was being built.

When the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, re-appointed the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike as the chairman of the 17th August, 2016 National Convention Planning Committee, it was because the party needed a strong and dedicated political strategist with the right skills to weather the storm of the anti-denocratic antics of the ruling party.

Mr President Sir, l did promise last week when this subject was discussed to present “to you a simple but workable formula for the solution to this Niger Delta challenge”, with a caveat: ”if you are genuinely willing to make enduring history in Nigeria.” For now, l can only assume that you read part one of this open letter, and that is assuming that you are better than Olusegun Obasanjo, who admitted publicly, when he was President, that he never read Nigerian newspapers.

A Yoruba proverb says that one does not keep silent when something bad is going on because a house does not burn and fill the eyes with sleep.