Editorial
, Sep 07 2010 12:00am (5 Comments)


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Leo, on 15 Mar 2010 08:03am
fools, all the AC people are wasting time about Anambra. we are not a yoruba party full stop. ngige will be disgrace eventually.
Paul, on 23 Feb 2010 02:02am
linda, did u read other comments, if not please do and mind u, u are not a politican
Oyedeji bolaji, on 16 Jan 2010 10:01pm
CA sick President, whose complex medical condition has become a subject of endless wonder to the bewildered citizenry.
A headless federal executive composed of clueless actors who would seek shelter in some specious loyalty when exigency demanded that they act to save the nation from drift.
Add to that, the National Assembly of do-nothing, yes men- who like the Roman Emperor Nero, opted to fiddle in indifference as Rome went on fire.
If Nigerians had thought that the overpaid crowd in Abuja would do what is necessary to halt the national drift, they are wiser now with the chickening out of members of parliament in a moment of stunning abdication.
In more than 50 days now, the country has known nothing but afflictions and confusion. Affliction of an absentee President Umaru Yar'Adua and confusion over his refusal to transfer power to his deputy after being holed up in a Saudi medical facility.
Between the afflictions of an unwilling or obdurate president, the supine Federal Executive Council and an irrelevant National Assembly, it appears no worse fate could befall a nation. Like a big Ocean liner left adrift in the high seas without a captain, the nation seems headed for a shipwreck.
Clearly, the signs of disaster are already visible for anyone who cares to look into the horizon.
Six weeks - and still counting -to leave the nation to run on auto-pilot? It is truly hard to imagine.
Talk of being the toxic icing on the cake of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s record of incompetence and contemptible lack of respect for the feelings of the citizens of this country, the development amplifies the legacies of inertia and despair for which the PDP is renowned.
Today, governance is in reverse gear: fuel queues have returned and with it the agony of motorists across the country. The power situation remains probably worse than it was when the administration came into office, just as government's promise to deliver 6,000MW of power by December remains unmet.
Ditto for manufacturing sector with the woes in the banking sector now compounding their situation.
The 2010 budget has been kept in abeyance while the supplementary budget, passed late last year was reportedly flown to the Saudi hospital, and, sensationally signed by the President on his hospital bed. The status of the document signed under such situation has itself provoked fresh rounds of controversy.
With each passing day comes the feeling that the very things government claims as credit may unravel. The amnesty programme has become shaky; there are threats of violence returning to the creeks as the patience of the militants appear to be wearing thin. There is, as yet, little indication that government appreciates the need to move swiftly to douse tensions and to consolidate on the gains of its amnesty.
Clearly, what the nation needs at this time is a hands-on presidency which the sickly president is ill-suited or even incapable to provide.
The great tragedy is that hardly does anyone remember that the administration governs in the name of a political party - the outrageously permissive and soulless Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Where is the PDP? Like its presidential figurehead, it has literally been on AWOL!
For a party which enjoys absolute majority in government, it has thus played the ostrich - allowing the polity to relapse into confusion as its functionaries in government bicker over inanities.
Such was the palpable absence of moral authority on its part that it could not bring its weight to bear to get the President to do what is right, by encouraging seamless transfer power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.
Can the PDP do right or will it ever do right? This is the million dollar question. Doing right of course means getting the President to write to the National Assembly mandating the Vice President to take over. It also means getting the federal executive council to set up the medical board to determine the suitability of the President to continue in office. Unfortunately, the PDP would not; as indeed, it can't.
We may be a praying nation, but then, it seems that there is a limit to which one can tempt fate. The PDP has since surrendered the ship of state to the roaring hurricanes without caring a hoot about the nation's survival.
It is more than the nation bargained for.
GreatlakesUSA, on 15 Jan 2010 02:01pm
Can someone please help me out here.
Who is Andy Uba, Nnamdi Uba and Emmanuel Uba.Is Andy Uba the person as Emmanuel Uba and Nnamdi Uba. Well, this is it. I really do not care about Anambra politics. Anambra is matured enough to know what it wants, but if not let them perish.
CHUKWUDI CHUKWUMA, on 13 Jan 2010 12:01am
I like this man, he is a true born Biafran- Nigerian, his antedecents in stiring the ship of governance in Anambra State speaks volume, and his credentials qualifies him to rule Anambra state again.

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