OPEN LETTER: May God Make You The Man, A Time Like This Demands – Ex Oyo SSG, Akin Olajide Writes APC Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,”Itemises Matters of Priority”
OPEN LETTER: May God Make You The Man, A Time Like This Demands – Ex Oyo SSG, Akin Olajide Writes APC Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Itemises “Matters of Priority”
“13th June, 2022
OPEN LETTER TO THE NATIONAL LEADER AND THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (APC) – HIS EXCELLENCY ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU
Your Excellency,
It is with a heart filled with joy and gratitude to God that I congratulate you on your victory at the just concluded Primary Election of our Great Party (APC) held in Eagle Square, Abuja.
I am Alhaji Waheed Akin Olajide, Former Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of University Press PLC, and Former Secretary to Oyo State Government during the first tenure of Senator Isiaq Abiola Ajimobi of the blessed memory and a Chieftain of our Great Party, All Progressive Congress. Like you, I contested in the Primary Election to emerge as APC Candidate in Oyo South Senatorial Districts, but unlike you, I lost.
Anybody who knows your antecedents as a dogged fighter cannot be surprised at the results, for you gave everything you had into it. With the same determination Sir, we should win the General Election, come 2023, by God’s grace.
You have it now, the party ticket, immense goodwill that cuts across the nation and uncommon knowledge of the political, economic, ethnic and religious challenges facing the country. Most importantly, you have the courage of your conviction.
To be thus however is nothing but to be effectively thus. If you would however not disappoint yourself and millions of Nigerians, you must ruthlessly act to deal with our security challenges within your first one hundred days in office. In any society, the need to secure lives and properties should be at the apex of the pyramid of key performance indicators. You may therefore had to distance yourself with the unedifying ways the security agencies have handled the matter. There should no longer be sacred crows that cannot be called to order.
Our foreign exchange is deliberately mismanaged by those who should protect it. Your Excellency, may I advise against fighting corruption as an exclusive strategy to stop leakages. Preventing corruption during your tenure might be a more effective option. The fight against corruption should henceforth be owned by the people.
The Miracle you performed in Lagos was achieved simply because you tried to put round pegs in round holes. you have to resist doing otherwise when you get to Aso Villa.
Sir, it is my prayer that your tenure will be full of National Challenges whose solution will make your profile rise higher ( than now) as a Statesman.
When you get to Aso Villa, may you be able to think and act not as a politician, nor as a Yoruba Leader but as a President whose tenure would reduce the polarization across the nation.
MAY GOD MAKE YOU THE MAN, A TIME LIKE THIS DEMANDS.
I am a concerned Nigerian,
Waheed Akin Olajide
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