Now, Let the President Govern

THISDAY "It was a decision that had the imprimatur of millions of Nigerians who voted for their President last year all right, but the election tribunal victory of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is no less sweet because of the emotive factionalism that preceded it. Relying less on happenings in the court and instead feeding a frenzy of the imagination, the media space had been clogged with scenarios of how the tribunal verdict would go against the President. Why, some fertile-brained analysts had even constructed a situation in which the president would not only lose the judgment, but would also be prevented from contesting a re-run election on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP."