Our former President needs to know that the election in America is clearly as it is indisputably free and fair in every sense that John McCain had to immediately concede defeat and congratulate Obama in a genuine and sincere tribute… We can not deny Obasanjo’s sense of humour, intellect and charisma, when we recall the way he mesmerized the international community and bulldozzed his way to plum positions even in group pictures with world leaders.

With the November election so imminent and the stake so high, there is no better time to begin the much needed uniting and healing our party than now. The continuation of any type of bickering and acrimonious mud-slinging which many Democratic stalwarts have cautioned against could be irretrievably damaging to our party if not the political process. There is a time to fight and a time to unite, and with Sen. Obama all but clinched the necessary number of delegates needed to secure the nomination