FINANCE and INVESTING

I spoke to one of the political editors of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, who made the following statement, “We (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) look at a candidates chances of winning, before we decide to write about them, and you are running as an independent.” I told him that that was an incredible statement giving the fact that this is the year of the independent candidate, and the increasing belief of the American people that we should clean the deck of Washington and other government insiders.

Personal integrity was the principal characteristic canvassed by Nigerians of various shades of opinions and political ideological leanings for a man or woman that would be saddled with the responsibility of conducting the 2011 general elections. It was a firm belief of all such Nigerians that it is only a person with personal integrity that would conduct elections that would be considered reasonably as free, fair and credible.