- Kogi NDLEA arrests suspected Indian hemp dealers
- FG may review Lagos-Ibadan Expressway concession
- Soyinka, Agbeyegbe ask court to void 1999 Constitution
- PDP’ll win Bayelsa, Sokoto, C/River - Jonathan •15,000 security personnel for Bayelsa poll tomorrow
- Salami knows fate as NJC meets Feb 29
- Senate backs post-UTME
- Scrapping of TASUED is unfortunate - Adebanjo
- Committee on police reorganisation meets IGP •Set to flush out bad eggs
- I was bribed to nail Al-Mustapha, says Katako
- Borno Speaker impeached
- Boko Haram: Security beefed up in Lagos
- Husbands petition IGP over wives’ postings
- S/Court ruling: Gov Lamido, others relocate to Abuja
- Ekiti assembly scraps office of minority leader
- Akerele mourns Aluko, Mbu, Dantata •As ex-Ekiti commissioner mourns Aluko
Jonathan, beware of sycophants
A report in a national newspaper on February 22, 2010, had it that the South-South governors in a bid to ensure that they returned for a second term, have individually gone to see the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, pledging to work with him for the success of his tenure.
It will be recalled that the South-South governors did reschedule their unending meeting that would have presented their group’s position, while the logjam in the presidency was in a terrible situation.
Nonetheless, the Governors’ Forum still came out with a hopeless communiqué to the Acting President.
In the same vein, the outgoing Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Peter Akinola, under a headline “No Cabal Should Be Allowed To Hold Nigeria To Ransom” in the same newspaper said that, “When Nigeria starts one problem today, it continues to go round and round.
When shall we become a nation whose politics will become such that can take the people to the Promised Land? How can we allow members of a cabal, who engage in madness of self-preservation to hold the entire nation to ransom?”
Acting President is capable and need the support of well-meaning Nigerians and at the same time, he knows who the pretenders are.
Itoro Akpabio,
Umuahia Road,
Ikot Ekpene,
Akwa Ibom State.

