INCONTESTIBLY, getting Britain to agree to Nigeria’s Independence didn’t come on a platter of gold. Nigeria nationalists struggled and fought the colonial lords. From Herbert Macaulay to Azikwe to Awolowo, the fire of nationalism got stoked.

I GET distressed by many things written on the pages of newspapers on varied subjects spanning politics, the economy, education, relationships, religion and others. Often, I feel so agitated that I have felt the need to respond, even though I have very rarely done so.

THEY say he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches him. The Governor Theodore Orji-led administration had after a careful study of the prevailing situation come out with the verdict that it was politically-motivated.

THE unfolding events in the country’s political landscape, most especially the zoning propaganda are daily becoming interesting. No doubt this is a headache of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, because both the proponents and those that are against zoning are all members of the party.

Election is the deliberate exercise of the citizenry in selecting a person or persons by the process casting of votes on a day legally established to determine the winner of a political office so entitled for a specified tenure.