WHEN their candidate was roundly defeated by Barack Obama on the November 4, 2008 United States Presidential election, at the concession speech of Senator McCain, you could observe a lot of his supporters were bitter, not because their candidate lost the election, but because he lost to a blackman! Most of them were crying ‘how could this happen? How can this black man rule ‘our’ America’? To them America belongs to the white man, period.

THE reported events of Thursday November 16, 2010, highlighted what Nigerians knew all along. For starters, a group known as Coalition of Atiku Northern Supporters (CANSU) who are staunch supporters of the former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was reported to have issued a statement.

I HAVE watched with dismay the unguarded utterances of some political undertakers who think they are still relevant politically in Abia State against Governor Theodore Orji, especially as next year’s general elections approach.

I JOIN millions of Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora to mourn the death of our foremost nationalist, an elder statesman, pro-democracy activist, journalist and one of Nigeria’s frontline politicians, Chief (Dr) Anthony Eromosele Enahoro the Adolo of Uromi who died peacefully on 15:12:2010 at the age of 87, in Benin City, the Edo State Capital.

THERE is something about the Nigeria system that defies all logic and reasoning. The country has been enmeshed in the zoning brouhaha since the demise of our dear president, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. During his long absence, due to ill-health, there were subterranean and unconstitutional moves to block the then Vice-President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan from assuming office because the President did not properly hand over to him, before travelling for medical treatment in Saudi-Arabia.