I AM joining legions of party faithfuls and all men of goodwill to urge President Goodluck Jonathan to run for the 2011 presidential election. Happily, the international community is also making overtures to him to run on account of the great success of his recent trip to the United States where he attended the nuclear summit.

IN what can be regarded as a summit-level sales pitch with a touch of class, a Kano State delegation, ably led by the Governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, returned to the country after a highly successful road show through the chiselled hallways of California’s Silicon Valley, raising the profile of the state’s Information Communication Technology (ICT Park).

IBB registers himself to me as someone who loves power and the appurtenances of power and so cannot afford to distance himself from power – and cannot have enough doing as a “kingmaker”. He must always be politically relevant His real intention about power was manifested when against the decision of the Supreme Military Council, he adopted the title of President and eased out his critic, General Domkat Bali.

Whatever it is that is in human or spirit form that has been confusing our leaders, please I pray you with all that you hold sacred, I pray you with bent knees, I pray you with drooped head, I bow and tremble in total supplication to spare our President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. This is the first time in the history of our great nation that a gentleman from the oil-producing little town of Otueke in Bayelsa State by divine providence is in Aso Rock.

ON Thursday April 21, 2010, the Edo State Government under the leadership of the Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole organised a rally in collaboration with Labour and the civil society in support of electoral reform in Nigeria around the philosophy of ‘One Man, One Vote’.