Last week, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu set out to act what typifies a Nollywood film by causing the publication of a so-called “attempt to assassinate him.” Ekweremadu in a statement by his media aide, Uche Anichukwu said the attempt occurred at about 10:00am between Apo Flyover and Dantata Construction Company’s yard, close to the Old Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Headquarters junction on his way to the National Assembly.

RECENTLY Nigerians have been groaning under the heavy burden of acute fuel scarcity which has hit the country for the third week running. Also the issue of power which many thought was beginning to improve for the better has gone bad again thereby leaving behind anguish and lamentations across the nation.

Please don’t forget the horrifying sound of the T.V, the sad face of the beautiful correspondence, the faded clips projecting the raided schools and the wailings of the hurt parents who lost their girls on the 14th and 15th of April, 2014.

Often, the campaign or process leading to the nomination of candidates for America’s presidential election is comparable to any beauty pageant. It shoves up all sorts of contenders – the ultra conservatives, the extroverts, the introverts to the moderates, a most unlikely description for Republican party contenders.

With a little over a year to the end of the governorship of Comrade Oshiomhole in Edo State, there are overt and covert signs that the race to succeed him on November 12, 2016, has begun in earnest.