Mr Obasanjo's estranged vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, instrumental in securing past PDP victories, wants to be president, as does Ibrahim Babangida, a former military ruler.The splits in the elite are unnerving, considering the bloody sectarian violence that often accompanies political divisions in Nigeria.
When I hear the music from it now, I feel myself sink into a securer past.
Here in Afghanistan, we need to secure our past before we begin to create a future".
Saracens' narrow victory on a bitterly cold afternoon was not enough to secure passage past the group stages of the EDF Energy Cup. Northampton's bonus-point win over the Scarlets put them through to the semi-finals in Coventry in March.
We too can both secure the past and make history.
However, saving the Wedgwood collection has to be about building a future as much as securing the past.
As conservation secures the past at the cost of our futures, and as climate change accelerates, when will additional natural light and ventilation, photovoltaic panels, domestic wind generators, roof and window insulation, not only be permitted but required in the 9,300 conservation areas and 450,000 listed buildings in England and Wales?
Rights acquired through clear contract or agreement deserve every protection: even if subsequent generations are at liberty to question the laws of the nation and to alter them as they will, they are not at liberty to invade the property rights of people secured through past agreements.
If the jury is still out, so to speak, on the particular case of Ms Brooks, then the general question of an individual's efforts to secure redemption for past failings hangs over a great deal of contemporary public life.
