Happy birthday to my dear friend and brother, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamilla, Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives.
We grew up together with the likes of Folabie Caxton Martins, Wole Atunrase (both of whom lived just round the corner from you in Surulere), Deremie Ajidahun and so many others in those heady yet great days of the 1970s and 1980s in Lagos and London and have been closer than brothers for at least 50 years.
In all that time, you have never let me or any of us down and you have always displayed nothing but loyalty and sincerity to those you grew up with and your childhood friends.
I remember your scathing criticism of the late and great Chief Bola Ige when you and I first started politics in 1990 and after he ran down the concept of “newbreed politicians” which the government of that day introduced and promoted.
I remember the day you came back from America in 2004 with your beautiful wife Saa after many years of living abroad and your visit to President Olusegun Obasanjo at the Villa to tell him that you and her were back and that you would be living in Abuja.
