After
watching the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo in Benin City, Edo
State, on TV live during his fact finding meeting with the good people of Edo
state, I realized that he is totally not a Nigerian. He listened to all
speakers with rapt attention and concentrated interest.
One could
see him practically and personally experiencing the pains of the abandoned and
abused people of the Niger Delta. Even when there was a mini riot in the hall
he remained calmed and probably prayerful as an ordained man of God.
If the mild
drama of mini riot that played out in the hall had happened in a situation
where even a local government chairman was in charge, the chairman would have
ordered the security men to shoot at sight.
If the
person in charge was a state governor or a president, he would have ordered a
massive arrest and inglorious shot at perception and at sight, but the learned
and erudite scholar and legal luminary of international acclaim did not do any
of that.
Rather when
he responded he said he equally shared the grievance of the aggrieved Niger
Delta people.
This is
un-Nigerian.
For a leader
to share in the pains of the people and not to deal with them for daring to
engage in mini riot in his presence shows that the goddess of pride, the delusion
grandeur and megalomania tendency usually associated with the average Nigerian
leader at virtually all levels are not in the acting president.
For him to
order all the oil companies to move their headquarters to the Niger Delta is a
wonderful act of justice and healing of the age long injury inflicted on the
Niger Delta people.
That he
visited the Niger Delta states differently and interacted directly with the
people and even visited the creeks to personally access the horrible situation
is worth more than commendation.
No Nigerian
leader at his level has acted like this.
This is the
reason I doubt if Acting President Yemi Osibanjo, SAN, is a Nigerian. Probably
he is a Moses in the making to the Niger Delta people.
Source:
Naijaloaded
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