As a young journalist at The Punch in 1980, I appeared one morning at Eko Hotel, as it was then known, to interview newly-elected Senator Joseph Tarka.
Mr. Tarka, whose son, Simeon, had also been elected to the House of Representatives, occupied an expansive suite in the hotel. It was my first experience of how the other half lived.
He was a well-groomed, well-spoken man, was Mr. Tarka. He was also bearing some kind of stigma, having been…
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