Your comments on my article, "Patriotism, Dead or Alive," came to my attention only yesterday. Installing me in a group, you accuse me of "a chronic pessimism as to become pathetically blind to the emerging new Nigeria," and of not bothering to "proffer alternative leadership or management strategies…"

The white missionaries who condemned as idolatry, the practice whereby animals, foods and money were offered as sacrifice, now turned around to request for the same items… They

however branded their own requests under different titles such as offerings, tithes and harvest

thanksgivings.