That , perhaps, may be carrying our collective eccentricities and mutual fears, too far,too soon. When it is realised that the North does not fit into the strait-jacket description or compartmentalisation of being inhabited solely by Muslims because there is a large oasis of Christians in the ‘Desert of Boko Haram Muslims’, that is the Middle Belters- Benue,Plateau axis, Taraba, Adamawa and the people of Southern Zaria in Kaduna State are Christians.

Though time worn, the saying that “charity begins at home” is still a relevant standard for measuring the generosity or goodness of a man. Over time, many a man of public acclaim for goodness have failed the test in their responsibility to their own family, kith or kin. Of such a kind it seems Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Governor of Edo State and erstwhile labour leader agitator typifies.

The sudden emergence of the Muslim militant sect with its earliest base in Borno State within the past two years had gradually assumed the ferocious dimensions of an Aqaeda group whose pattern of killings and bombings is beginning to be a thorn in the flesh of security agencies in Nigeria.

Very few subjects can boast of generating the kind of interest the issue of political leadership in the South-East Nigeria has done over the years. The unflagging commentary it spawns every so often bespeaks of the people’s unwavering concern over the issue.

I believe that, as Nigerians, we should welcome everyopportunity to broaden the base of popular participation in economic activities. Poverty has persisted in the country for so long because the economic space has excluded many disadvantaged groups like the Niger Delta.

Having become the president of Nigeria he must be seen as having outgrown the period of political apprenticeship. There is nothing wrong if a person is found to be good and those employing him or her want the person”as long as she is good in all political respects.

It will be a celebrated effort if religious leadership in Nigeria would take full advantage of the present war-cry by Muslims to declare total war on the “Destroyer” (fraud and corruption). This will be a blessing accruing from the unfortunate statement by the Sharia Council.

My attention was drawn to an article titled: Still on a Certain Peter Obih, published on page 49 of Vanguard Newspaper of Monday, July 18, 2011 written by one Valentine Obienyem, who claimed to be SA to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State.

Truly, politicians are selfish. Perhaps because they have erroneously entertained the none-existing fear that once the down-trodden masses which make up a vast majority of any country’s population is rescued out of the cesspool of ignorance which their poor social status has uncharitably plunged them into, the positions of the former, and those of their upcoming children will be in grave danger.

For those of us, I mean the intellectuals from Bayelsa State, who know the antecedents of President Goodluck Jonathan from A-Z, we are simply stupefied by the seemingly plotless, shapeless and undignifying drama staged around the N18,000 minimum wage.