Incidentally, I was not born in March. I did not give birth
in March and hope not to die in March.
Furthermore I did not start schooling in March nor end any of my schooling in
March. Even when a Vice-Chancellor now of blessed memory decided to kick me and
thirty-three others from the best University for Law then, (Lagos State
University), the expulsion did not take place in March, likewise the inevitable
recall.
However some very important events in my life have happened
in March. For example, the Squib debuted fourteen years ago in March (March
2001). I was called to the Bar in March (1996). Pitiably, it is also in March
that I lost two of the three most important men in my life.
As you might have been aware, I have the exceptional good
fortune of belonging to three fathers. I am the case of one son, three fathers!
Unlike most other people.
I have a father in fact called Daniel Oyewole Ogunlana.
I had a father-in-law called Dr. Joseph Eyitayo Adetoro.
I had a father-in-the law called Chief G.O.K. Ajayi S.A.N,
the Oodole of Ile-Ife.
You must have noticed that I write of Dr. Adetoro and Chief
Ajayi in the past (tense). This is so because the two giants have left for the
great beyond.
Dr. J.E. Adetoro, former Federal Commissioner under General
Yakubu Gowon from 1967 – 1975 died on March 22, 2010. Chief G.O.K. Ajayi S.A.N
went the way of all mortals on March 28, 2014. I miss both of them greatly.
G.O. K. Ajayi’s destiny even in death seems still linked wih
Nigeria and her democracy. Chief’s birthday falls on May 29, but it is that not
Nigeria’s democracy day? And when is Nigeria going to the polls this very year?
March 28!
So Chief Ajayi’s one year remembrance falls on Election day!
My consolation is that come March 29, 2015 by the special
grace of God, there’s going to be a very important change of name in the
country.
This is what I mean – Goodluck Jonathan will become Goodbye
Jonathan!
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