WITH less than 10 months into the governorship of Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, there are covert signs that the race to succeed him in 2015 has begun in earnest.Political discourses have tended to be focused on that quintessential candidate who will fly the banner of the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, among the motley crowd of emerging aspirants who have shown subtle interests in taking over from Dr. Uduaghan on May 29, 2015.

IT was also within the administration that solar was installed in Ipene, Umon Island and Community Secondary School, Adim in Biase Local Government Area, while boreholes have been provided in Betem and Iwuru in the Area. There is now also electricity in Nkim-Osokom and borehole and solar in Buda in Boki.

The author was not surprised when President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Nuhu Ribadu to Chair the Petroleum Task Force. Short and simple, the presidency is in desperate search for credibility, especially since the fuel subsidy removal and the monumental exposure of corruption surrounding the oil subsidy.

IN the words of Anon, ‘Ordinary people think of spending time: Great people think of using it.’ Isak Dineson summed up his own words of winning this way: ‘don’t count every hour in a day; make every hour in the day count.’

FOR quite a long time now, it is obvious that the activities of the Abia State government have been getting negative publicity, most times fabricated or twisted for selfish and mischievous purpose by a particular national daily owned by a former governor.