RE: FW: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Pius Adesanmi satirically speaks:

Bisi Akande is a leader of the APC- an association of free men and women. He  is not a political appointee so appointed by an elected public office holder like Nigeria's president. If the free members of a political party choose Bisi Akande as their leader, however old he might be, so he shall be. It the party's choice  as it should rightly be. All must respect this choice. If Bisi Akande chooses to run for elective public (political) office, all who are persuaded that his age handicaps him should not vote for him.

My miff with Bamanga Tukur's appointment is not his age but his competency to lead a critical, major, public corporation in great and urgent need of good leadership, given his well recorded many leadership opportunities and failures.

I recall the wisdom of a rich businessman who knew his son well. The business man paid his college educated, reckless son handsomely every month but kept him (son) far away from all his companies. Nigeria's leaders may wish to learn from the said businessman.   

 

oa   

 

From: Chidi Anthony Opara [mailto:chidi.opara@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 1:30 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Cc: Anunoby, Ogugua
Subject: Re: FW: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Pius Adesanmi satirically speaks:

 

Bisi Akande, who ran AC/ACN and now APC is also an old man. Why is there no "funny one" on that?

 

CAO.

On Monday, 3 February 2014 19:43:53 UTC+1, Anunoby, Ogugua wrote:

The concern need not be age. The concern should be competency.

The "man in his 80's" ran the Nigerian Port Authority. He was forcibly removed from that office for wrecking it. He headed the Africa Business Roundtable. He left it worse than he found it. He was a national political party chief. The party fissured inevitably during his tenure. He was forcibly removed from that office. He now has been appointed the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) Chief. Does past job performance count for anything?

Why this man is now being tasked with running a critical economic development (transportation) infrastructure in a less developed country is a ponderous wonder. Is there not enough verifiable evidence already, that this man is simply not able to run a purposive organization successfully? Then again, it just might be that the NRC is not believed to be critical to Nigeria's economic development.

Does Nigeria owe this man and the many likes of him a living different than she owes other citizens?  If the answer to this question is yes, does the cost of this debt to the country  matter? Like justice, development delayed is development- a better life denied. I am just saying.

 

oa

 

From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nkolika Ebele
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 8:43 AM
To: USAAFRICADIALOGUE
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Pius Adesanmi satirically speaks:

 

A funny one from Prof Adesanmi. 

Nkolika

 

 

Professor Pius Adesanmi satirically speaks

 

"When I heard that the President had appointed a man in his 80s to run the Nigerian Railway Corporation, I told those who sought my opinion that the appointment makes perfect sense. Those transformation trains doing Lagos to Kano in three to four days in the 21st century are refurbished World War II trains. You need an age mate of the trains to oversee things"

God bless the President

 

Posted on FB by Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye 

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