Nigeria, April 14 -- "I am proud of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria..."

"Which senate are you talking about - our rubber-stamp senate or the senate of the Republic of somewhere else?"

"I mean our own senate and not another! For the very first time, I watched them speak like men with balls, as they say"

"And what of the women among them because they have women members? They, too, spoke like women with what?"

"I don't know how to describe that one! But the senators who spoke were all men - and they made me really proud"

"I am sure you will be hard put to convince any Nigerian you are speaking of the very senate they are all too familiar with. Is it not the senate headed by one Godswill Akpabio?"

"Come on, how dare you r...