What is likely to hit you at first encounter with Fred Onyeoziri is his personable nature. Yes, he was such a pleasant person – full of life; charming; calm; and always unassuming. He even gets more amiable when he speaks. What comes out was always a disarming logic and brilliance too hot to be concealed, […]
What is likely to hit you at first encounter with Fred Onyeoziri is his personable nature. Yes, he was such a pleasant person – full of life; charming; calm; and always unassuming.
Yes, Professor Fred Onyeoziri was not your cream chocolate intellectual; he was a solid one. He was not just a political scientist, he was a political scientist of the critical tradition. Of course, you cannot study under the great David Easton at the Chicago School and turn out ordinary. As a teacher, Professor Fred Onyeoziri was well respected not only at the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, where he taught and trained generations of students, many of whom are now accomplished teachers and administrators in their own rights. Indeed, he was respected and even adored for his brilliance, quality of his work and promotion of the university with his journalistic writings.
Without a doubt Onyeoziri was adored at the University of Ibadan by both students and staff of the institution. In the 80s and 90s, wherever he passed on campus, you could hear someone whispering and pointing to his direction, “That is Fred Onyeoziri, the one that writes those things in the Guardian.” That was the kind of aura he exuded.
In terms of his media engagements, Professor Onyeoziri was not just an iconic columnist, he was also a media executive. He was member of the editorial board of The Guardian Newspapers and sustained one of the most widely read columns in the country for many years. He was the chairman of editorial board of The Post Express Newspapers and much later, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the papers.
It was therefore fitting that Professor Onyeoziri did not limit his excellent knowledge of politics to the classrooms and newspaper pages. He was tapped by the late Ojo Maduekwe to head the research directorate of the Peoples Democratic Party . In that position he tried to bring some orderliness, democratic principles, and intellectual perspectives to operational activities of the ruling party.
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