DANCING WITH THE WOLVES

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu is learning a new and melancholic tune after being sent on solutary confinememt to the cold and picturesque Jos for a course at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies,kuru.This comes at a deciding moment for Nigeria`s new government under Musa Yar Adua and the leviathan PDP party,whether to turn a new leave and let true democracy and rule of law reign or continue with the banana republic cloaked in the American midwived democrazy.Methinks this young man is paying with his blood for having good motives but hanging with the wrong crowd,the likes of his former goodfather,Baba Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo.Now he has to pay the piper because Baba and his crony James Ibori`s shady pasts needs to be investigated and and smell coming from their festid rump need to be covered by the power that be.

Nuhu Ribadu might just get used to his new role as the `phantom of the opera` in the Nigerian corruption soap opera and perform sad tunes to the delight of the undulating and cold landscapes of the desolate Jos Plateau.