Appearing on Channels Television’s “Sunday Politics”, Adedeji undertook what ordinarily should have been an uncomplicated assignment: defend the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu. Then there was Adedeji’s fascinating evidence of presidential frugality: President Tinubu, he said, walks from his residence to his office. President Tinubu did not need that defence. Perhaps the larger lesson is for President Tinubu himself. Against them, the Escalade question does not merely sound insensitive.