On September 11, 2013 1.6 million people of the Catallan region in the ancient and beautiful nation of Spain protested against the state and expressed their desire for secession by forming a 400 km long human chain. According to the polls 52 per cent of the people from that region wish to break off from Spain and to establish a new European sovereign state.

Five months ago I left the PDP and I told the world why I chose to do so. I also said that the party had hit the rocks and that it was a sinking ship. Few believed me at the time but today even the most chronic of doubting Thomas' have changed their minds. The division within the ruling party has now become so self-evident that only a fool would believe that things can ever be the same again between those that honestly believed that they had cornered the market on our country and that they would rule Nigeria for the next 100 years.

Today a great march and protest is taking place in the Catallan region of the nation of Spain. According to the polls 52 per cent of the people from that region wish to break off from Spain and to establish a new European sovereign state.

I am proud of the decision that the British Parliament has taken not to join in the attack on Syria. Prime Minister David Cameron has been badly humiliated and this is a great triumph for Ed Milliband, the Leader of the Opposition. Kudos to my friend Mr. George Galloway MP for his brilliant and stirring speech on the floor of the House of Commons on this issue.

As the American carnage in Syria is about to begin, mark my words and read my lips carefully. The biggest mistake that Barack Obama will make in his life and career is to strike Syria on the false and ridiculous premise that Assad has used chemical weapons against his own people.

I just watched Senator Ahmed Yarima Bakura on Channels TV and I am utterly revolted. He is a practising paedophile and I have absolutely no respect for him. Hajiya Khadiyya Ahmed, a practising muslim herself, conducted the interview in an excellent manner and she took him to the cleaners in a very clinical and professional manner.

Permit me to begin this contribution with two incontrivertable assertions. Firstly had we successfully answered what has come to be collectively known as the ''Nationality Question'' in the '50's and '60's there would have been no civil war in 1967. Secondly had we not chosen to forget our differences but instead had we tried to understand them the last fifty three years of our existence as an independent nation would have witnessed far more unity,stability and progress than it has done.

I have always been very critical of American foreign policy in the Middle East and as far back as the time that Mubarak was removed from power, right here on this wall, I predicted that all that is happening in Egypt today would happen. Yet I never thought that it would be this bad with the massive slaughter of members of the Muslim Brotherhood by a new military junta and the burning of churches and terrible attacks on the christian community by Morsi supporters.

Earlier today I empathised with some of my igbo friends who were hurt by some of the things that I said and I expressed my regrets for hurting them. However despite this they must understand that I meant no offence and I did not say anything out of malice. I simply spoke the bitter truth.

Those that call me a tribalist and an igbo-hater are simply misguided and ignorant. Perhaps they do not know the meaning of those words or the true import of their meaning. Those that know me well like you can confirm the fact that I am not a racist or a bigot and that I consider such sentiments as being unworthy of a man of class, good breeding and culture.

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the igbo and the yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs.

WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO? A year after British Prime Minister Cameron promised to legalize homosexual marriage by 2015, he touted Britain as “the best place to be gay, lesbian or transgender anywhere in Europe” (Telegraph, July 24, 2013).