PICTURE a Vice President stepping up to a podium, his voice calm but heavy with meaning. Every word lands like a stone in water.
That was the scene on Thursday at the YarAdua Centre in Abuja, as Vice President Kashim Shettima spoke at the launch of OPL 245: Inside Story of the 1.3 Billion Nigeria Oil Block, a memoir by former Attorney General Mohammed Bello Adoke.
What started as a tribute to Adokes integrity soon took a dramatic turn. Shettimas account of how he survived a 2014 plot to remove him as Governor of Borno State under President Goodluck Jonathan has stirred debate: was he indirectly criticising President Bola Tinubus controversial suspension of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara?