In the month of July, the first month in the second half of the year 2020, which would mark the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence
, some emergent leaders came of age. If life, as they say, starts at forty, these men, who were born in 1960, could be said to have attained full adulthood by arriving at the elegant age of 60.
Perhaps, it was as a result of Abayomi’s work as Emeritus Professor in the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as Principal Investigator of the Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium , which was set up to address biosecurity concerns in Africa at the height of the Ebola outbreak that recommended him for his present assignment.
At the age of 49, Prof. Abayomi was already the Head of Division, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. Before then, he was a Consultant Haematologist and Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe Medical School from where he went to serve as Chief Physician at the Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone, Botswana in 1998.
What stands Soludo apart from his peers is not just his intellectual profundity, but the fact that he is a made in Nigeria intellectual and technocrat. Soludo has remained Nigeria’s intellectual export to a number of international organisations, particularly the World Bank, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Development Programme.
Repeated attempts by Soludo to govern Anambra State have continued to experience hiccups, thereby proving true the assertion that excellence in education or the boardroom does not translate to success in partisan electoral competition. At the tail end of his tenure in the senate, Koro moved over to the Peoples Democratic Party , where he contested unsuccessfully for Lagos State governorship. The empathic leadership Obanikoro demonstrated through the execution of his OPP must have endeared him to Lagos PDP leaders, who invested him with the captain’s band to contest the 2007 governorship election.
A product of Bakare family of Ita-Ado in Isale Eko, Ikare and Ilashe in Amuwo Odofin Local Government of Lagos State, Senator Obanikoro attended Saint Patricks Catholic School, Idumagbo, Lagos and Ahmadiyya College Agege.
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