Quotes;08 December, 2008

– Rotimi Akeredolu, President, Nigerian Bar Association, condemning the treatment of former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, at the graduation ceremony of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru.

The barbaric exclusion of Ribadu from a course he duly completed and passed is a big deficit to the rule of law mantra of President Umar Musa Yar’Adua’s regime.

– Osita Okechukwu, National Publicity Secretary, Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, on the treatment of Ribadu.

A writer of Achebe’s status in the world does not need a Nobel Prize, rather, the Nobel Prize needs Achebe.

– Professor Chukwuemeka Ike, traditional ruler of Ndikelionwu in Anambra State, on the non-award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to celebrated novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe.

“There is a clear vacuum of leadership. For the better part of this year, the President had been trying to reshuffle his cabinet, without success. Any normal president should have become embarrassed by the number of times he has promised the nation to carry out the exercise, and has failed to do so.”

– New Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, on the proposed federal cabinet.