THERE is something seriously wrong when a government no longer cares what the people think.
In the days of the Obasanjo administration when all the most outrageous increases in petroleum products prices took place, Nigerians were involved in the process all the way.

’Under the PDP the only thriving industry in Nigeria is Elections. Local Government Elections, State Elections and Federal Government elections are run through the years and most of those processes are never concluded. Most of the brilliant legal luminaries rotate from one court to the other, prosecuting or defending election petitions. The Judiciary have abandoned criminal cases and millions are in prisons awaiting trials.

With a legacy interlaced with juicy off chamber exploits, the third term Senator is no push over and his decampment to the PDP is said to be in preparation for a more robust fourth term in the Senate from 2015

Thanks to Professor Chinua Achebe, whose timely interventions in Nigeria’s history, whether they are real or out of his pithy fictions, will always remain signal moments in the destiny of that country.

LAST Saturday’s Action Congress meeting was successful on many accounts, not least of all in terms of correcting prevalent perceptions about the relationship between the governor of Lagos State Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) and his predecessor, the Ashiwaju.