I MUST necessarily start by congratulating Goodluck Jonathan for listening to me on the matter of Ibori’s London trial. In “Any Deal between Jonathan, Ibori-Uduaghan” recently published by various media organs home and abroad I opened that topic this way: “We all love Goodluck Jonathan, and yours sincerely has arguably done more pro-GEJ articles (published home and abroad) than anybody since Atiku emptied his political campaigns of sanity.

YESTERDAY, for supporting Chuma Nzeribe, our self-acclaimed political puritan, Dr. Okey Ndibe said that Governor Obi was treacherous.

IT was a story of condemnation, chastising, anger, despair, discouragement and depression when Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission first announced the postponement of the National Assembly elections.

DR. CHRIS Nwabueze Ngige can’t seem to walk away from political controversy and electoral misadventure. Since he came into political limelight in 2003 as the Anambra State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, Ngige has lost two elections to Peter Obi/APGA; fought protracted battles with his political godfathers and is presently caught in the center of another electoral storm.

AN ideology is a general concept that informs collective understanding and focus for policy formulation, planning and implementation.

ELECTION time is usually no ordinary period for Nigerians, especially the political class. It is a period of uneasy calm and of doubtful probabilities. It is a period when postulations fail and nothing else is certain.

OVIE OMO-AGEGE has always been a veritable pawn in the hands of Ibori and subsequently received choice appointments under the latter.

THE April Fool’s Day is celebrated in a variety of ways around the globe. Reports suggest that the most widely held belief is that it originated from France in the 1500’s during the reign of King Charles IX. During the sixteenth-century, France changed its calendar by moving its New Year’s week, March 25 – April 1, to a single day on January 1.

These are political times, but more than political times, these are electioneering times. During elections, politicians, desperate for votes, induce or bribe the electorate with all manner of things, including money. These are also Ghana-Must-Go times. But the season is also a season of mischief.

PRESIDENTIAL candidates are in the habit of promising heaven and earth. We must resist the temptation of choosing the candidates based on the list of promises they make. Rather, a more realistic approach in choosing presidential candidates is to look at the underlying attitudes or qualities which they have because it is these qualities that will determine how they will comport themselves while in office.