Okachikwu Dibia

Talking politics means talking good because politics is about the goodness of society. That is why political philosophers devoted all their lives in looking for the good of the state. 

By way of definition, Rumour is a Nigerian who knows what is happening or can correctly intuit the happenings in the country but does not have any official means of informing Nigerians.

We can easily recall that Plato, one of the great political philosophers, who lived in Athens between 429-347 BC, was deeply concerned with the issue of the quality of political leadership and this led him to insist that to be a political leader, one should be a “Philosopher King”.

In Nigeria, there are many problems afflicting the nation.

The Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria is one of the three major ethnic nationalities in the country. The others are the Yoruba and the Hausa-Fulani.

I read yesterday (Sunday, 8 November 2015) from www.elombah.com that the Nigerian police killed two young Nigerians who were protesting for Biafra in Delta State.

“Buhari buharile owa
imanu ele army chanjile
nu Shagari ladule… change,
Change ’83. Queue up, order,
be disciplined”

Since the Clifford Constitution of 1922 introduced the elective principle in Nigeria’s politics, political parties and especially the Nigerian police have been expected to guarantee peaceful and successful general elections in the country.

I used to think that some top persons in society do not suffer from two things that seem to easily afflict the materially poor: anger and misunderstanding.

‘…I beat him up, yes, this old man who does not respect his gray hairs. I beat him up because he did ‘waka’ to me and said that he would call police for me. You should thank your God that I did not have my gun with me. I would have shot you and wasted you…’