Who would have thought that the boiling cauldron, built over Yar'adua could just freeze with a single pronouncement?

Surely I'd had sleepless nights wondering what would happen to Nigeria if the north should lose power in 2011. The consequences could have been grave, reduction in unbridled breeding and subsequently in the numbers of almajirai. Where would politicians find canon fodders to fight their many wars? Poverty would have been eradicated. What promises would politicians be making after that? As a result, cows would have stopped giving their milk; we would have lost the age-old advantage of being educationally disadvantaged. Villages without water would have had water, those without electricity would've been connected to the national grid, and the north would have leapfrogged into advancement. That would have been the end of the entity called Nigeria.

But St. Vincent Ogbulafor has saved the day by assuring Nigerians that the north would have and hold power till 2014. And that has nothing to do with the constitution which does not recognise zoning, this is the PDP glue to keep Nigeria one. But I am totally miffed that up till now, no solidarity rally has been held to celebrate this cheering news - where is Soyinka, Falana and Bakare? No Emir has deemed it fit to bestow on the chairman of Africa's largest party a proper chieftaincy title, like the Garkuwan Arewa. An Ibo man, republican by birth and answering the title of Prince is an antithetical misnomer; a true title from the house of Arewa would have remedied that. We may dethrone Emirs if they fail to act fast.

Why does the PDP have to think about the constitution? Do they not control the parliament at the top and have over two thirds of those in states? Do they not have a plan to run Fashola, Oshiomhole, and others aground in 2011 and then rule us for another sixty years? So what is the constitution? I hear shouts of people power? What happened to people's power in Bauchi and a deputy governor who tried to be more people than his pocket? What about the PPA in Imo? Just give Peter Obi time to sit in proper, he will find his roots. Did Ahmed Sani not sit on the hottest bed of opposition in Zamfara for eight years? Did he not make his own deputy succeed him? Where is that deputy? Faafuun, the PDP train is moving, woe betide those who try to stand in front of it. This power given to us by Allah would never be taken away from us by anybody. If Togo can build an empire, why can't Nigeria? And if the people fail to vote for us, we have the record to make our goats, camels, horses and chickens fill the gap.

Our strength is in our unity. Is it anybody's fault that while the north is a monolithic entity, the south is an agglutination of tribal fiefdoms? I must remind Nigerians that it was not the PDP that divided Nigeria - that fame belongs to the British. It was not the PDP that amalgamated what has been naturally divided by the Niger and Benue - that glory goes to Frederick Lugard. This catholic marriage can only be dissolved by Lugard himself. If anyone knows where he is, let them appeal to him personally. Yes, the north is a monolithic entity and if anyone wants to learn a trick or two about how to make the Izon sit at peace with the Urhobo and the Itshekiri; or how to make the Yoruba share a plate of eba and ofe Owerri with the Ibo; or make the Anang and the Efik settle their differences over a plate of epankoko garnished with mfi and do not know how to do that, they can ask us, descendants of Fodio and the Sardauna, we have the recipe.

Our ancestors left the recipe that made the Tiv share a hot plate of pounded yam with the Idoma; the Etulo and the Igala; the Beriberi with the Kukawa; the Anago and the Jarawa; the Okun with the Anebira; the Hausa and the Fulani. The only difficult recipe we are not mixing correctly is that one that makes the Hausa/Fulani enjoy gote with the Berom. Even that we shall cook somewhere in the heath between heaven and hell. But our elders did not die with the recipes; indeed, they wrote the down for us in Arabic preserved it in the house of Fodio and therein lays our power. It's not too late for the south to learn to be one.

I think Vincent has done more for us as a nation, he has finally put paid to all the bloody agitation over the health; whereabouts or fate of our dear President Umaru Musa Yar'adua. Since he made the pronouncement, Nigeria has settled down like boiling water taken off the pressure cooker. And for that singular act, let us make him Father of the Nation, even if Obasanjo would not like that. For starters, let us give him a national honour, Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR at a venue to be announced soon. Southerners who want to attend should send their names to Hajiya Turai, secretary of the committee and place congratulatory adverts in Daily Trust. PDP! Power to Destroy Democracy.