Nigeria, July 27 -- Two weeks ago in this column, I asked what the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the emerging coalition of some of the country's leading politicians, will do differently from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). An amused reader called and engaged me in the argument you are about to read.

"Sir, were you just flying a kite or you seriously did not know?"

"Sir, no one knows everything. As our people would say, who asks for direction no dey miss road. I ask questions so I may know"

"That, then, is a surprise to me! You who should be educating us are the same person asking us to show you road!"

"Knowledge does not reside in a single personality"

"Very well! I will start with the person announced as the ADC cha...