The Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, sounds like a man who wants his name on the good pages of history. Who would not? Wabara is also equally conscious of the amazing recycling, or turner over rate of the occupants of his present office since our putative democratic experiment in 1999. Naturally, he wants to keep his job and would do his best to ensure that his tenure is not truncated. It does seem, however, that he has un/consciously limited himself to one way of keeping his job: stooping to conquer, whatever that means.

A friend of mine, Chinedu Idike, once asked me: “Who is a gentleman?” Before I could figure out what may have prompted that question or where he was drifting our discussion to, he saved me an imminent embarrassment. His inquisition caught me off guard. I did not have an answer save to think about what Fela had to say on the subject. Thankfully, he volunteered a response to his bizarre question.