The controversy generated by President Umaru Yar’adua’s ill health/incapacitation and his deliberate or maybe forced refusal to transfer power to his deputy Goodluck Jonathan has before now, been driven by mere emotional outbursts rather than deep meditations on the core crux of the matter which has now become obviously deadlocked. It is a common saying that desperate situation requires desperate measures and nothing can best describe the state of the nation now but to say that it has become desperately dangerous to just sit down and continue to trade blames in court and in the wider political circles.

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Last Saturday, voters in Anambra State came out in impressive numbers to elect a governor. The stakes were extremely high, and the obstacles formidable, but the people of Anambra did themselves great credit. After it was all over, incumbent Governor Peter Obi made history as the first two-term occupant of the Government House. And Anambra put itself forward, in my view, as a pivot for the democratic renewal that Nigeria so sorely needs.

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Controversial British MP, Tony Baldry,  who was recently caught trying to help Nigerian fugitive politician James Ibori escape justice in the UK has been ordered to repay more than £12,000  of the allowances he overclaimed from the British parliament according to the recommendation by Sir Thomas Legg.

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lately confirmed long-held belief by some, that it is not fit to manage the affairs of Nigeria. Decent and honest men and women in positions of power seek out the interest and overall good of the nation, even at personal cost. They don’t go about fishing for tenuous reasons why constitutional provisions can be side-stepped.

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The Save Nigeria Group, organized labour and other stakeholders in the Nigerian federation too numerous to mention here  met on Monday, February 8, 2010 and deliberated on the state of the nation. The group reviewed the refusal of the Executive Council of the Federation to boldly declare President Yaradua incapable of exercising executive function as mandated by Section 144 of the Constitution. The group views this failure as a serious breach of their responsibility and an act of aggression against the Nigeria people who have suffered the indignity of a President’s abdication of responsibility, which has damaged Nigeria's governance and reputation.

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