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 In a dramatic climax to the controversy trailing
his election as Senate Presi-dent, reprieve came yesterday for Senator Adolphus Wabara when his opponent in the
Abia South senatorial contest, Elder Dan Chinyere Imo of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) withdrew all petitions.
But chairman of ANPP Chief Don Etiebet, described the action as a huge joke. Just as the vice chairman of Independent
National Elect-oral Commission (INEC), Alhaji Shehu Musa insisted that Imo defeated Wabara at the polls. (This Day)
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 Dr. Pius Okigbo, renowned economist and scholar once lamented of the
Nigerian polity: "What is unfolding is very much like an Athenian tragedy but without the majesty of a Greek
drama." Perhaps few insights capture, in so few words, the extant reality that is the Nigerian state. This
damning scenario is most fittingly dramatised by the assassination of the nation's Attorney-General and Minister
of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, December 23, 2001, with no light to-date at the end of the tunnel, in solving the murder.
(This Day)
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