My Dearest Sage, the Esama of Benin Kingdom,

To think that you have clocked nine decades of life's mileage on Planet Earth, and still hearty and healthy, can only be a rare gift from the Creator of Man. Plus your own attributes of healthy diet, exercise, and peaceful coexistence with people.

To have emerged from a humble cradle in Okada village in the current Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State some 32,850 days ago, to become a global phenomenon that you are today speaks volumes of your gains over pains, in a life that is fraught with strifes, ups and downs. More grease, Sir.

Meanwhile, burrowing into your personal history sheds light on your perspiration, aspiration, and desirous determination and ambition to be great in life in order to impact humanity positively.

And since you found the rope of opportunity to climb unto the hill of hope of life from your hitherto dark slope; you have through multiple ways served mankind selflessly and constructively. Be it as a policeman, businessman, education investor, or grand philanthropist.

Kudos High Chief. Your good deeds shall outlive your mortal being to become reference points in the chronicle of human knowledge and feats.

I am therefore highly delighted to join your nuclear and extended families, close associates, and teeming admirers worldwide to wish our iconic living legend further longevity in wealth of good health. You have made ninety to look seventy.

Definitely, your lofty legacies, urbane, and humane antecedents shall forever be worthy of emulation by generations yet to come in our nation.

Warm congratulations on the anniversary of your 90th birthday, Esama (Dr) Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, the living legend of our time.

Finally, my family and I wish you more grace and continuous usefulness to our country, Nigeria, and humanity at large.