Letter From Aluko Tolulope Abayomi
By Okey Ikechukwu
He was a visually challenged young man whom I call "Okurin Meta". I first heard this Yoruba expression literally "three men" in one back in 1989, when I was still a lecturer at the University of Lagos. It was the late Chief Adewoyin, my neighbour and much older friend, who often so enjoyed my visits and long conversations on various subjects that he inflicted the "title" on me based on his strange belief that there was nothing in the world I could not explain.
I, in turn, transferred the inflicted title on Aluko, whom I first met sometime in 2004. This was at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, Abuja and we have been friends since.
