VP YEMI OSINBAJO AND HIS SACKED AIDES
You will hardly know how any Nigerian behaves until you give him a chance, or entrust with position of responsibility. Then, he would reveal his his true nature, his identify.
We have always held the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, in high esteem. He is a professor of law, a senior advocate of Nigeria, and above all, a Pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God. We therefore thought Osinbajo to be broadminded, urbane and universalistic. We had not in any way associated him with harbouring any sectional or clannish interest.
But look at the list containing names of some of Vice President Osibanjo’s aides who were allegedly sacked by the Presidency. They clearly reflect or bear testimony to the particular part of the country where Vice President Osinbajo comes from.
We are not going to make any further comment on this, but to publish the list as we saw it, and then allow the reader to draw his or her own conclusion.
Here are some of the names and the portfolios of Vice President Osinbajo’s aides that were recently sacked by the Presidency.
1. Jibola Ajayi – SA Legal
2. Lanre Osinbona – SAA ICT
3. Imeh Okon. – SSA Infrastructure
4. Jide Awolowo – SA Oil & Gas
5. Lilian Idiage – SA Research, Legal and Compliance
6. Arukino Umokoro – SSA Niger Delta
7. Bala Liman Mohammed – SA Economy
8. Edobor Iyamu – SA Niger Delta
9. Dalapo Bright – SSA Agro Allied Value Chain
10. Toyosi Onaolopo – SA Community Engagement
11. Gambo Manzo – SA Political
12. Bisi Igungbemi – SA Political
13. Edrin Akemu – SA Industry, Trade & Investment
14. Akin Soetan – STA Economic Matters
15. Aondaver Kuttuh – TA Rule of law
16. Ife Adebayo – SA Innovation
17. Yusuf Ali – SA Power Regulations
18. Tola Asekun – SA National Boundary Commission
19. Morakinyo Beckley – SA Off grid power
20. Yosola Akanbi – SSA NEC
21. Tochi Nwachukwu – SA Power Privatisation
22. Bode Gbore – SSA Political
23. Abdulrahman Baffa Yola – SA Political
24. Kolade Sofola – SA Infrastructure
25. Ebi Awosika – STA Community Engagement
26. Muyiwa Abiodun – SSA Power
27. Forri Samson Banu – SA Entrepreneurship
28. Bege Bala – SA BPR
29. Feyishayo Aina – SA Community Engagement
30. Halima Bawa – SA community Engagement
31. Nkechi Chukwueke – SA Community Engagement
32. Ilsa Essien – SA Media
This is just a tip of the iceberg. We do not know the identity of the several others remaining. If you go to the Office of the President himself, a similar scenario may have played out.
Any wonder why every Nigerian wants his own sectional or regional President, a President who is identified with his own particular part of the country, and not a Nigerian President, a President who sees himself as belonging to all Nigerians, and who sees every part of the country as his constituency. That’s why Nigeria is finding it difficult to grow.
