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He fought dirty and encouraged the other two to stand their ground alongside him, but it was partly my own doing that the case dragged for so long. They parted at Freetown on the ship that delivered Fadoyebo back home and never met or even corresponded again. All Fadoyebo himself received was a certificate thanking him for his ‘Loyal Service’ and, under the column for medals, ‘Not Yet Decided’.

Buhari, from the Hausa-speaking, mainly Muslim north, needed the support of the Yoruba in the south-west because the Igbo in the south-east – the third leg of the tripod who between them constitute about half the population – would never vote for him. English people,’ they seemed to be saying. But they repeated a phrase again and again. The others depend on their monthly allocation from Abuja, the capital, which jealously guards its powers.

It turned out the electronic billboard above the toll gate – which had been switched off just before the soldiers arrived – was owned by Tinubu’s son, Seyi. The regime’s spies, I was warned, were everywhere, and wearing plain clothes.'

Nigeria also laboured under military rule but they never embedded themselves in this way.

He did indeed manage to trace the village – an improbable event all by itself - and delivered the letter, as you can see from the documentary on YouTube. Elections had been organised after many years of military rule, but were annulled before the counting was over in order that the military might continue. He further averred that his wife ‘confided in him severally while they living together (sic) that she had been sexually abused and defiled by her father, Otunba Alex Onabanjo on several occasions.’

Only the parties concerned know whether any of this is true or not but then only the concerned parties know whether, for instance, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, the former governor of Obasanjo’s Ogun State, really did administer oaths, including ‘blood, cow heads, calabash and other fetish materials’ during the course of which each participant ‘swore to upholding opposition to Daniel at all times and submitted to the death of their first born, should they renege on the oath.’ There was also the case of Ngige, the former Anambra State governor, who did or didn’t swear to an oath at a shrine: ‘I took my Bible with me and followed them.

For erratic days over the next few weeks, villagers visited their hideout with rice and water. As a former law professor, his urbanity and articulacy present a sharp contrast with Tinubu. On the contrary, as the country’s first Prime Minister put on the eve of independence (and which Phillips quotes), Nigerians knew the British ‘first as masters, and then as leaders, and finally as partners, but always as friends’.

They had overrun Singapore, the Malaysian Peninsula and now Burma, leaving an already fractious India – the jewel in the crown – vulnerable. We gave him piles of rupees, and some cows as well.

Or, in fact, not talk about it very much, unless prompted’ – he waxed eloquent on the need for a revolution. In all of this, they received fulsome praise from their officers, who considered them alone of all the nationalities who fought in this campaign ‘capable of operating for months on end in the worst country in the world, without vehicles and without mules, and was alone able to carry all his warlike stores with him’.

For the rest, Fadoyebo never detected any anxiety on the part of his saviour or his wife.

Phillips first came cross this remarkable story of the ‘unlikely’ and ‘beautiful’ bond between ‘two Africans and a Burmese in the Arakan jungle’ in 2009 when he stumbled upon Fadoyebo’s manuscript in London’s Imperial War Museum while researching a documentary for Al Jazeera.