THERE is this general saying that; “if wishes were horses, beggars will ride”. We have started dreaming and assuming positions on what will be the outcome of the 2015 elections but like I have always noted, we have short memories in this country.

RECENTLY, some APC stalwarts principally the party’s chairman claimed that Nigeria has deteriorated under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and that APC offers a better solution, but is that true ? Rather than make subjective claims, it is better to examine the facts by global verifiable standards.

THE open letter written by Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigeria’s former Minister of External Affairs and Deputy Chairman, 2014 National Conference, to the two major contestants in this year’s presidential election; President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will continue to generate mixed reactions in the polity because it touched on salient points that bordered on our corporate existence as a nation.

It was only a matter of time before I retraced my steps to links that helped strengthen my nascent journalism career as sports editor for Newswatch
Magazine.

SEVERAL years ago, the Ghanaian public got fed up with that nation’s rut and economic meltdown and simply demanded that its erstwhile leader, J.J. Rawlings (then Ghana’s President at the material time), must do something. In the streets, the crowd poured out and chanted, “J.J., do something.” Their grouse was as varied as the disparate groups had contentious mission and agenda. At the end of the day, as they say, Ghana witnessed a fresh breath of national renewal.