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"Let there be work and bread for our father was not lazy. Let there be water and salt for all because he who work must eat. Yes our fathers have water the land, With their blood, their sweat and tears. We dance in the market place to celebrate, For our wounds are getting heal. Our Iroko the roof over helpless forks, Church for polisinner and the colorphobia. We've been set among the pinnacle, and our father has touch the heavens. Freedom have been bought with arm struggle mix with jix of sages. May the fire you light burn in our marrows, May we never see rest until our generations is free. May we know not peace until our children sleep in comfort. May your unconqushable light lite our part to oneness, May our ubuntu knows no boundaries.   #VivaMadiba #UbutunMadiba #ÀdupéMadiba #NmanmaMadiba #ForzaMadiba ©ÈníÒbánKé: The Ghosts diaries

By now, every Nigerian with a sense of decency who has seen the video, which has since gone viral, of the  impeachment  drama in Rivers State should be disheartened. The power play that blew up after the crisis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum chairmanship election is inching towards an unpalatable conclusion. It is not sufficient that 35 governors could not resolve between their bumbling selves who won a simple election, the story keeps taking unpleasant twists and turns. It is increasingly obvious that as long as the “Ogas-at-the-top” from our corridors of inordinate power remote-control the crisis, there can be no fairy tale ending. The continuing skirmish feeds their insatiable savage egos; where the whole affair is headed is pregnant and nursing a baby at the same time. As the sordid tale emanating from Port Harcourt goes, five lawmakers, who were probably high on their own supplies, decided to “impeach” the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The fact that ...