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Former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has signed the peace accord for the 2019 presidential candidates in Abuja. Atiku Abubakar, endorsed the pact drafted by the National Peace Committee during a ceremony at the Kukah Centre, Abuja on Wednesday.  Following his absence on Tuesday when President Muhammadu Buhari and some other candidates appended their signatures, Atiku and the PDP explained that it was caused by a communication lapse between  them and the National Peace Committee, headed by General Abdulsalami Abubakar, a former Nigerian military ruler. Atiku Abubakar was accompanied to the ceremony by Uche Secondus, the PDP Chairman and other party topshots. He endorsed the accord at 12:08 p.m in the presence of Abdulsalami Abubakar and some European Union delegates.

What will we not hear from our effusively childish modern politicians? Last week , Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State was so proud of his achievement as the first  Akwa Ibom son to fly a private jet to his state from Lagos before he became their Number One citizen. He said  "those who came back to Akwa Ibom State through night bus and the ones who came back through chartered flight, are they the same?" If Nigeria is a country where people reward achievements, I think  Mr Udom Emmanuel deserves one.  Or is it not an achievement to fly a private jet to see one's parents in a mud house? Is it not an achievement to fly a private jet to where you have no single building  before you became governor? This is one of the hazards of promoting individuals beyond their intellectual capacity.  Most renowned politicians started their lives as nobodies.  I am sure Chief Awolowo did not fly a private jet to Ibadan when he became Premier of the Western