QOTD: Why didn't i meet you earlier?

The story as written by Altaf Gauhar goes like this, in the late 1960’s President and Field Marshal Ayub Khan in one of his last bids to hold power hosted a round table conference with nearly all of the opposition party’s. During the conference one man from NWFP who had been suggesting measures to resolve the challenges was asked by an ally of Ayub Khan  “How is it that I never met a bright and able man like you when I was the Governor of NWFP? Letting the comment pass twice the third time the man snapped “Because all those years as governor you kept me in prison!”