First Lecture -2

In careful repitition line by line, word for word from the notes on his laptop screen, in embedding of the Southern England tinge Obad began to speak on elements of a ‘Contract’.  It was with the question ‘…Are all Agreements Contracts?’ that he sought to start. However, from the squint in their eyes, the frowns burrowed on some foreheads, and the puzzled look on many eyes he realised he was losing them. In puzzlement he thought he had up until now never met a rhetorical challenge and without a corresponding triumph. 

He decided that now was the moment for innovation, inventiveness and creativity and Obad abandoned the ineffective crouch his laptop had become.  he drew on something out of the realms of the dramatic that lay latent within him.  He was translated in time to his days Secondary School days when he headed the African and Dramatic Society and featured in a few dramatic sketches. He identified two students, beckoned on them to rise up from their seats and to proceed to the front of the class. He announced to the incredulity of the class the intention to put up a drama sketch and then proceeded to give the budding actors some hastily crafted lines. One acted as the father and the other as a University student. 

The script unfolded with the father making a grandiose promise to purchase a brand new Mercedes-AMG C43 4Matic Coupe, which featured a twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 that developed 362 hp and 384 lb-ft of torque and a all-wheel-drive system with a rear-biased torque distribution for more neutral handling, and a gearbox which has two additional gears for a total of nine, If his daughter was able to achieved a first class degree from the University. 

With scrupulous faithfulness to the script the daughter made the first class and then approached her father to fulfill the terms of the earlier agreement.  The father balked and gave her N200,000 to celebrate with her friends, suggesting the promise was simply made to encourage to heights so great. The daughter refused his gift and entreaties insisting on the fulfillment and complete settlement of the promise. With the father unrelenting, the drama ended with Obad questioning whether the daughter could successfully sue the father. The students in excitement offered various versions of their answers with many suggesting that a promise was one to be kept and therefore the father was liable.     

To be Contd.