Nigeria, Aug. 1 -- Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, jettisoned the heights of the Nigerian Senate to aspire for the more dizzying heights of the Edo State Government House. By the time the PDP and Asue Ighodalo, its candidate in the 2024 election, licked dust at Samorika, Okpebholo's aspiration ripened into the realization that he would yet be governor.

The PDP and the outgoing Godwin Obaseki who had badly mishandled the situation, fought fiercely until the Supreme Court terminated their truculence and tantrums. Even before that, Okpebholo had been sworn in. He has remained governor.

It Is not everyone who is familiar with limelight or comfortable with it, for that matter. But during his earliest days in office, Okpebholo was found...