A GREEK proverb warns: "don't hear one and judge two". This sensible aphorism would appear to have been ignored by Mr. Femi Aribisala in his article of August 21, 2013, in which he bitterly assailed the contribution, character and person of the late Chief R.A. Fani-Kayode in the following terms : "....Like father, like son: That was 48 years ago.
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Today, Femi Fani-Kayode, the 53-year-old son of Fani-Power,' continues in the mischievous tradition of his father: throwing dangerous missiles at the innocent.' " Furthermore, the said Mr. Aribisala also made what I thought were wildly inaccurate and dangerous statements about the true nature of Nigeria's federalism.
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I first had the opportunity of meeting the late Chief R.A. Fani-Kayode when I joined the law firm of Fani- Kayode and Sowemimo sometime in 1990. I found him to be a man of elegance and great charm.
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Though, he was in semi-retirement and hardly ventured out to the law courts at the time I got to know him, it was, nevertheless, obvious that he possessed an acute analytical mind, a profound knowledge of the law and was very meticulousness in his approach to solving a legal issue.
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This was, without doubt, the consequence of an extremely fine intellect which had been refined by a first-rate legal education. I thought, however, that this superlative approach was undermined somewhat by the belligerence and biting sarcasm of his forensic style. In the discharge of his professional duties to his clients, he displayed a high degree of commitment, determination and discipline, which he also expected from his juniors, to who he made himself very accessible.