My friendship with Dr. Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo (1941-2003),the Oyi of Oyi began in 1977 when I covered the proceedings of the constituent assembly. The friendship cemented fully when I covered the Presidential campaign between 1978 and 1979. So when President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari(90) appointed Dr. Okadigbo as a Special Adviser in December 1979, I made several attempts, as a friend, to visit him in his office in the then Dodan Barracks in Lagos which was then the seat of the Presidency.