Adekoya Boladale
A long time ago, in the days of Late Chief Solomon Lar, when the likes of Chief Alex Ekwueme and
Professor Jerry Gana were still in active capacity, the streets and roads of campaign arenas dazzled
with the colourful flash of red and green. The ground for political ‘toasting’ was usually covered with
deafening echoes of Power! Power!! Power!!! These were the days when Nigerians took pride in
beholding the roof-staff called umbrella, even though under a dysfunctional government the people
celebrated our nascent democracy and civil liberty. Days when the Hausa man only knew of ‘fi di fi’ and
the little boy on the street of Mokola and Ojoo in Ibadan shouts to high heaven ‘power na da, power na re’
-where is the power, this is the power.
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