Chris Huhne, His Mistress and The Platform Repartee By Faseyiku

Nigeria's Senate

The unfailingly entertaining and erudite Pius Adesanmi grabbed his audience at The Platform on October 1, the day Nigeria celebrated her 55th post independence birthday, wooing his audience about the metaphor of what we all miss about Nigeria. If truth be told, what we in the diaspora miss about Nigeria is the "I can get away with it" mindset. We miss not being afraid of the policeman (unless he is cocking his rifle). That is because we can always flash shekels in front of him and have him give us a salutation. We miss our road rages. We can always shout ourselves hoarse at the driver of the car in front or beside us and rain expletives on them. We miss not being afraid of a judge because we can always lie barefacedly in front of a judicial officer and in some case intimidate him or her, even right in front of the bench. We can use the instrumentality of the executive office to trample on anything and get away with it. We miss hearing or saying that short sentence: "Do you know who I am?"