As the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari proceeds on an indefinite medical vacation to ensure resounding health, I wish him quick recovery. Illness is an exception even in the business world and taking care of ourselves is our personal responsibility. Not everyone will be like President Olusegun Obasanjo who, as president, despite been in his 70s then, could go on holding meetings here and there for 72 hours or more without sleep, to sleep later only on the plane. Ebora Owu is his nickname so you can never tell what powers bring him energy either from cloud nine or the fourth realm.
While this vacation continues a little longer, I am compelled to Think Osinbajo, the acting president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Never in Nigeria’s history has a well-equipped professor of law had the opportunity to lead Nigeria. As a respected academic, public speaker, pastor and direct son-in-law of the nationalist and Yoruba leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Osinbajo’s desire for quality leadership, hardwork, rule of law, anticorruption and scientific reward system strikes beyond the ordinary. This, he does not hide, though in humility on Poju Oyemade’s leadership conferences titled The Platform every 1st of October before he became vice president.
Going by these antecedents, it is glaring we are having a 21st century Awoist and strategist with lots of bias for the moral code. We are in for an acting president who knows all the lies used to perpetuate corruption in Nigeria from contrasting court injunctions, senseless stay of proceedings, cooked adjournments to immoral plea bargain that are all used to clog the wheel of justice in Nigeria. We are in for a man better equipped to fight corruption.
I see an ordered script of events within Nigeria’s leadership. As Buhari has used all his experience within the military to fight Boko Haram to a remarkable state, Osinbajo’s knowledge and brilliance at law must stand between the bar and bench to speak for the common man by fighting corruption. For this, he will be eternally remembered. No Nigerian will ever forget him for fighting the tools for designed lies, manipulation of evidence, deliberate delays and threats of witnesses that are used by corrupt politicians to step down justice in Nigeria. Unless he does something about these, Buhari’s anticorruption will be fully simmered. Infact, it will become tales by moonlight.
Despite Buhari’s inner will to ground corruption in Nigeria, there are 3 concerns that could clearly stop Osinbajo in actualizing this feat- a moral burden from a wide range of politicians, a possible continued desire to allow party loyalty to rule over expertise and lastly, the possible resistance of the cabals against An Osinbajo Presidency. Osinbajo was part of that first budding Action Congress winning team that transformed Lagos. He knows quite well that a team of harmonized experts smells like the highly synergetic Barcelona FC.(Chelsea/Arsenal/Man U fans, no vex o). Every touch is golden!! It will also be ignoring the obvious to say there is no cabal in this country that is above the law who do their things their way and account to no one.
However, the most critical thing for Osinbajo now is to ensure he stays alive! He is definitely not the anointed desired successor of the cabal as he shares same mindset with Buhari on anticorruption and there might be continued pressure to compel him to resign. If he refuses, other options might be tried. Like Professor Wole Soyinka believed during the Abacha era, Nobel Prize may be good but it is not a bullet proof. Staying alive is Osinbajo’s core responsibility.
But really in contrast, I am compelled to inquire. Osinbajo was in this government when our economic policy makers were directing the economy like a UFO. What did he do? Salaries, jobs, infrastructure, healthcare is what Nigerians need and not brooms or what wrong one Goodluck Jonathan did. I hope these truths will hit him like a thunderbolt! If he acts on it, only then can he leave his name on the sands of time.
While this vacation continues a little longer, I am compelled to Think Osinbajo, the acting president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Never in Nigeria’s history has a well-equipped professor of law had the opportunity to lead Nigeria. As a respected academic, public speaker, pastor and direct son-in-law of the nationalist and Yoruba leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Osinbajo’s desire for quality leadership, hardwork, rule of law, anticorruption and scientific reward system strikes beyond the ordinary. This, he does not hide, though in humility on Poju Oyemade’s leadership conferences titled The Platform every 1st of October before he became vice president.
Going by these antecedents, it is glaring we are having a 21st century Awoist and strategist with lots of bias for the moral code. We are in for an acting president who knows all the lies used to perpetuate corruption in Nigeria from contrasting court injunctions, senseless stay of proceedings, cooked adjournments to immoral plea bargain that are all used to clog the wheel of justice in Nigeria. We are in for a man better equipped to fight corruption.
I see an ordered script of events within Nigeria’s leadership. As Buhari has used all his experience within the military to fight Boko Haram to a remarkable state, Osinbajo’s knowledge and brilliance at law must stand between the bar and bench to speak for the common man by fighting corruption. For this, he will be eternally remembered. No Nigerian will ever forget him for fighting the tools for designed lies, manipulation of evidence, deliberate delays and threats of witnesses that are used by corrupt politicians to step down justice in Nigeria. Unless he does something about these, Buhari’s anticorruption will be fully simmered. Infact, it will become tales by moonlight.
Despite Buhari’s inner will to ground corruption in Nigeria, there are 3 concerns that could clearly stop Osinbajo in actualizing this feat- a moral burden from a wide range of politicians, a possible continued desire to allow party loyalty to rule over expertise and lastly, the possible resistance of the cabals against An Osinbajo Presidency. Osinbajo was part of that first budding Action Congress winning team that transformed Lagos. He knows quite well that a team of harmonized experts smells like the highly synergetic Barcelona FC.(Chelsea/Arsenal/Man U fans, no vex o). Every touch is golden!! It will also be ignoring the obvious to say there is no cabal in this country that is above the law who do their things their way and account to no one.
However, the most critical thing for Osinbajo now is to ensure he stays alive! He is definitely not the anointed desired successor of the cabal as he shares same mindset with Buhari on anticorruption and there might be continued pressure to compel him to resign. If he refuses, other options might be tried. Like Professor Wole Soyinka believed during the Abacha era, Nobel Prize may be good but it is not a bullet proof. Staying alive is Osinbajo’s core responsibility.
But really in contrast, I am compelled to inquire. Osinbajo was in this government when our economic policy makers were directing the economy like a UFO. What did he do? Salaries, jobs, infrastructure, healthcare is what Nigerians need and not brooms or what wrong one Goodluck Jonathan did. I hope these truths will hit him like a thunderbolt! If he acts on it, only then can he leave his name on the sands of time.
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