How many times did you have cause to shake hands with Chief Awolowo after that judgement?
Innumerable. In fact, he used to joke with me that my wife was his daughter and that he would take his daughter away. Not in connection with the case. My wife’s father comes from Ogun State. So I’d also joke then that, well, you can take your daughter but you can’t touch my children. I used to tell him that we Ibadan indigenes are warriors. That if you take my children with your daughter, the Ibadan people will declare a war on the Ijebus. So we would laugh. When I got home, I’d tell my wife that “your daddy wants to take you away. But don’t dare to go with my children. The Niger-Delta crisis has become Nigeria’s running sore. What do you think is the lasting solution to the crisis? Yes, it is an open sore on the face of Nigeria. It is an embarrassment. I’ll answer the question with two words- Do justice. The absence of justice has been the problem of the Niger-Delta. When the British came to Nigeria, they came through the Delta, because of the palm oil. That is why it was called Oil P
