They say JKF’s the most difficult to read as a whole,
That his body language need a Nobel research grant!
That his mind deeper than the Kola borehole.
Now they propagate relentlessly the enigma chant.
Years of turbulence and uncommon tactics,
Dogged fighting, retreating and fighting another day,
Stealth technology, media warfare, belligerent tactics,
Has made self-made researchers allude the enigma gait.
A tireless, hard to beat, ever moving workaholic,
An insatiable, voracious consumer of written words,
Globetrotting for opportunities they say he’s frolic!
Yet they still paint the enigma theory in colourful words.
The enigma sprouted out of the rolling hills of old,
A landscape divinely decorated with the finest values,
Inundated with professors scoring first everywhere as told,
What a background for the incubation of an enigma with values.
Who says the bells cannot continuously ring,
That sounding cymbals and the golden timbrels clang,
And the perfect symphony of moon and stars seen
Heralding the birth of an intellect on whom the restoration hangs.
Today you will receive uncountable accolades,
Mostly not from jesters and the usual praise singers,
But you are undoubtedly getting a true taste of the finest chocolate,
At the birth of a legend, Ekiti is agog with dancing and singing.
Evang Foluso Daramola is the Commissioner for Education Science and Technology, Ekiti State and writes from Ado Ekiti
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