Amosun at 65: Examining a People-centered Leader Adewale Ogunyomade examines the political life of former Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, as he turns 65 On January 15, 2023, Ibadan,
examines the political life of former Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, as he turns 65
During Ayefele’s Opeyemi, held late in the evening on Sundays, “testifiers” who have gone through earth-shaking vicissitudes of life share their horrific and providence interventions which shape their lives and keep them from being swept offshore by the vagaries and turmoil of life. Today is another birthday celebration of this celebrated politician and humanist whose life is summarized by the testimony of that former prison lifer.
A year after his graduation from the polytechnic, Amosun began to hone his skills in the career in which he would later gain renown and wealth. Aged 45 at this time, it would seem that Amosun was engaged in an existential interrogation of what is called midlife crisis. Then the young accountant’s mind hovered over the landscape of politics. Reflexively, he suddenly clenched his fist and exclaimed Eureka!, the same way Archimedes, Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor, must have exclaimed Eureka! Eureka! When he discovered the principle of measuring with precision the volume of irregular objects.
Since his coming on board politics of his native Ogun, politics therein has not been the same again. It is either you are for Amosun or you are against him, Amosun being emblematic of change and positive governance. In the same vein, it also occurred to Amosun that, no matter the strides he made in the corporate world, he might never be able to positively affect the lives of five percent of his teeming poor constituents.
His first shot at political office as a senator benefitted only a third of his Ogun people, he reckoned. Couldn’t he escalate it to a higher pedestal? Not only did he change the face of governance and the architecture of governmental intervention in the lives of the people, Ogun State became a byword for infrastructural revolution. At every point he turned to interface with the people, he always told them that the power God had given him was the power to do good for the greatest number of the people.
Even though intangible, one other underrated bit about Amosun is that he brought high level of morality into governance.
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