IN Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s supplementary budget submitted to the Edo State House of Assembly towards the close of 2011, he requested for, among other things, N7.2 billion for debt servicing.

THE point to begin the story of my political journey is unarguably my meeting with David Edevbie. I told my wife when I was leaving home for Ikoyi for that meeting that I would get on famously with this man.

ONE of the major crises the Federal Government of Nigerian has been facing in the last eight years is religion. It has stretched the unity of the country to its limit as politicians have, since the inception of the Fourth Republic, gone beyond limit, using it as an instrument to acquire political relevance, therefore, creating acrimony between people who ordinarily lived together harmoniously.

IN the almost five years that Chief Godswill Akpabio has been on the saddle as the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, the state has witnessed unprecedented infrastructural and human capital development that many people who have followed development in the state since its creation in the last 24 years have marvelled at the quantum leap.

THIS piece was initially entitled: “Olaitan Oyerinde: A Machiavelli Unravels in Edo”; but I had to change it to “Olaitan Oyerinde: Rest not in peace” for an understandable reason: To flag down attention of readers to the narrative, which is both a tribute, in the plain literary logic, to a man who lived for the labour struggle but was, unfortunately, cut down by unknown gun men in the arena of conflict that has been given a political coloration, and a genre of message to a spirit being to fight for himself in the folkloric sense.