Nigeria, July 28 -- Praise and dispraise are two usages for which the tongue of a Nigerian politician can be put. This is a common perception among politicians themselves. In Nigerian politics, back-trackers are as common a sight as a fisherman daily sees shrimps in the creeks. Last Friday, Ekiti State's former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governor, Ayodele Fayose, reminded me of Alamu Atinsola Atatalo, one of the pioneers of Dundun and Sekere traditional music in post-colonial Yoruba Nigeria. Atatalo reinforced the transition of the tongue of a Nigerian politician from one superlative extreme to the other, as defined by the esophagus. At a small level, Atatalo mirrored the typical Ibadan, whose tongue cuts through rough edges like hot ...