NATTERING nabobs of negatism”, this was one of the phrases used by the then administrator of East Central State, Dr. Anthony Ukpabi Asika(1936-2004) in 1972 to attack the former President, Dr. Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe(1904-1996).The phrase itself was first used by Mr. Spiro Theodore Agnew(1918-1996), former Vice President of the United States of American in a speech delivered November 13, 1969 in Des Moines, Iowa.