The 2011 general elections have come and gone, and judging from the comments of local and international observers including Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka the processes, especially the National Assembly and the presidential polls, were in many respects free, fair and credible.

Now that the elections have come and gone, we turn our searchlight and focus on Ondo State, where the Labour Party (LP) has continued to ‘rule the roost’ and has now taken over from the PDP as the dominant party in the state by flooring both the PDP and the Action Congress (ACN) in the National and State House of Assembly elections, thereby consolidating its firm foothold on political power in the Sunshine State which was triggered off in 2009, when the courts declared Governor Segun Mimiko winner of the gubernatorial polls of 2007.

IT is now clear that the supplementary elections for governor conducted Friday last week in Imo State was an ego massage; the elections were duly concluded on Tuesday April 26 and a winner, Chief Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, clearly emerged as the winner. But like Chief Okorocha has said, it was still alright to ‘fulfill all righteousness’.

IN the past couple of years, there has been increased media attention concerning reproductive health and rights in general and abortion in particular.

SOMETHING of a big argument has surfaced on the recently conducted presidential election. Who delivered the Igbo vote to President Goodluck Jonathan? The governors of the South East have those who give them the credit. But it is one credit that must be mediated by the Governors’ showings in the rest of the general elections.