It is regrettable today that politics in Nigeria is getting more brutal, more bizarre and damned bloody. Political assassinations are common place in the agenda of today’s politicians. Our politicians now pursue more eloquently those traits and interests that divide us rather than inventing means of cementing the bonds that unite us.

Wonders, they say, shall never end. The people of Sokoto State are currently witnessing the latest bout of wonders aimed at hoodwinking the very intelligent people of the state into being backing a wrong horse.

BACK in 1988 when General Ibrahim Babangida wanted to embark on the first round of removal of subsidy on petroleum products, it unleashed a blistering campaign that Nigeria was the only country in the world where a bottle of Coca cola, then sold at 5 kobo, was cheaper than a litre of fuel that was sold at 2 kobo per pump price.

AHEAD of next year’s governorship election in Edo State, high level intrigues, plots, blackmail, name-calling and political witch-hunting have started in earnest, especially in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State. It is obvious that in the days ahead, more of it will resurrect among those who are posing and pretending to be members of the party, but in the actual sense they are moles who were on a suicide mission to disintegrate the party and pave way for the ruling party, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to win again in the forthcoming election.

HISTORY is both the account of events and the role of prominent actors in these dispensations. Every nation or state will always have its defining moments. At such critical junctures, we may encounter a protagonist whose fortunes interweave with those of the larger society.