Long before the current widespread insecurity across Nigeria, Plateau State had been a theatre of killings-no thanks to conflicts between the natives and nomadic herdsmen.

Balogun Akin Osuntokun, notable columnist, activist, politician and Yoruba leader, will be 60 on December 16. The former Political Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, in this interview, reflects on his life over the past six decades.

Mrs Tochi Opara is the author of ‘21st Century Parenting’ and a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and Associate member of the Standing Committee of Mediation Advocates, ASCMA, UK.

You rightly captured it, certainly it’s a date I won’t ever forget. But I think the governor had probably made up his mind long before the 2nd of November,2018. We only filled and endorsed the nomination forms on the 2nd of November and submitted to the Party, about a day to the closing date. I think what has changed from then is my perception of life. In all honesty, I never for once dreamed about this, absolutely nothing prepared me for it. The possibility of me being the deputy to Mallam Nasir Elrufai was not ever what I imagined, not even in my dreams.

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