If the nonsensical religious fascinations
of today are not, in any classical or Christian sense, genuine pieties, they are nevertheless genuine — if deluded — expressions
of grief,
encomia for a forsaken and half - forgotten home, the prisoner's lament over a lost freedom.
In his response after the announcement
of the results, Prof Olusola Eleka showered
encomia on Fayose while thanking his rival Adeyeye for what he called his display
of maturity.