It has always been insinuated that young Nigerians have more capacity to reform the country. 'Tope Fasua, here, gives credence to that school of thought. Young Nigerians I met one of the many sons of one of Nigeria’s early leaders just last week. The burly guy from the East of the Niger was quite remarkable. As I saw him out of my office, he made a remark about the generation of leaders that his father belonged to. He said he loves and respects his now late father, but that in their era, they neither obeyed the law nor subjected themselves to simple, clear rules and regulations. He said they would usually defy the law and do ‘gra gra’; that even when they were wrong, they refused to admit. Yes, many of our leaders in that era simply lived like Lords, were seen as legends and held in awe and so some believed they were above the law. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I heard so many legends told about those leaders, stories ranging from the bizarre, to the fant