THE scoreboard between OBJ/Atiku and Yar’dua/Jonathan’s regimes is what was loudly presented to the PDP presidential primaries delegates at the Eagles Square on January 13, 14, 2011. It is heart-warming that Nigerian politicians are learning gradually and in no distant time may no more be taken for a ride. The Yar’Adua/Goodluck government may be far from the best we had hoped for but in comparison with those very sickening eight years of OBJ/Atiku, it is better. And those delegates said so with their votes.

THE essence of democracy and party system is the control of the machinery of government through the process of election . In democratic dispensation, power belongs to the electorate whose votes should count as an instrument of enthronement into the various elective offices, from the presidency down to the councillorship.

LEADERS that realise that greatness is not property accumulated within the shortest time but the services rendered for the good of others. Since, the British colonialists lowered the Union Jack and freed a land they have ruled for less than a century, the country has never enjoyed credible leadership with good governance.

THE usual predatory political elite mock him, claiming that he is too rigid and fixated to certain moral categories and therefore unamenable to the free bargain of politics or the “scratch my back, I scratch yours” that has dragged our public affairs to the pit.

EVERY journey starts with the first small step. There is no doubt that this year’s general elections will definitely cha6nge the course of history of Nigeria for a new nation.