For the umpteenth time, the good people of Ekiti State await the judiciary to do the needful and give them desired justice in the electoral disputation over the 2007 governorship election. It may sound foolhardy that the election, which tenure expires in a few months is still under judicial contestation. But

One vital area Jega needs sufficient time to tidy up is on the issue of voters’ registration. Because Nigerians have rightly identified an authentic voter’s register, far from the macabre concoction by the immediate past INEC leadership, as the engine room that drives a credible election, they rightly perforated the tentative Jega time table that allocated just two weeks to register voters all over the country.

Let Jega Have His Time Extension but Let Him Start Running.

Again, the Nigerian judiciary was in its full nudity in the trial of the petition by Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the AC governorship candidate in Ekiti State against the declaration of Mr. Segun Oni of the PDP as the winner of the highly dramatic bye election. The present dirty dance of the Nigerian judiciary was expected in a system that is so fluid that result of elections that were

Gradually, the dark and ominous cloud that befell Nigeria with the alleged arrival of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to the country after a three months medical sojourn in Saudi Arabia seems to be clearing. Gradually, Goodluck Jonathan is getting his lily livered feet firmly on the ground. He owes his ascendancy and his present confidence not to the tired and compromised ex-looters he took the first two weeks of his Acting Presidency cavorting with but to the critical masses who have shown they have far outgrown their jaded and obsolete leaders.