Earlier this week, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State and leading presidential candidate in Nigeria’s coming presidential election, was at Chatham House, an elite British Intellectual Think-Thank hornet to espouse the ideas surrounding his presidential contest and his governance roadmap should he emerge in February, to the world. This wasn’t his first Chatham House outing. In fact, in 2011, Asiwaju was in the same prestigious forum to tell the world about his emerging role as Leader of Opposition in Nigeria through his Action Congress of Nigeria, which, shortly after his initial Chatham House outing, merged with other legacy parties to dethrone the then ruling People:s Democratic Party as Nigerian ruling party in an epic electoral contest in 2015.
The world noticed that Asiwaju’s first Chatham House outing eventually led to an opposition sweepstake that sent the then-ruling PDP packing. It was, therefore, expected that the world paid more than a passing interest in his second Chatham House outing as a leading candidate in the coming election. The world knew that Asiwaju was more than a passing wayfarer that observed a mere stopover at Chatham House but an iconic leader poised to take over the leadership of the most prominent black nation on earth. Hence, the world paid serious attention as Asiwaju pontificated at Chatham House. And he never disappointed but shined like a thousand bright stars in a darkened night.
In Democracy, the government has the potential to grow both vertically and horizontally. Despite global economic challenges brought upon the World Nations by the Covid-19 pandemic and the current war in Ukraine, coupled with deep pockets of insecurity, the Buhari administration performed highly in Infrastructural development, a plus to progressive horizontal achievement. Recently, we have the data that ICT has become the highest contributor to Nigeria’s GDP. Another piece of evidence is that flat progressive advantage is on the move in Nigeria. After all, the debate on moving away from a monolithic economy is ever subsisting in Nigeria. This provided a preamble to Asiwaju’s quest to lead Nigeria at this stage, viz; to leverage Buhari’s solid achievements to create a profitable niche that will benefit all Nigerians.
Ignorance kills disingenuously; Asiwaju demonstrated how exemplary a leader he was at Chatham House. How many of Nigeria’s politicians have the progressive capacity to keep their team together as a team of Tim Sheep Farming Philosophy? Let us speak to issues and not sentiments! Asiwaju is the big next thing coming to become Nigeria’s President next year, by God’s Grace! Team leadership as the bastion of innovative governance was at full display in Asiwaju’s Chatham House outing as Asiwaju and his well-crafted team showed the beauty of teamwork and leadership creativity in such ways that dazzle the ordinary-minded and the ignorant.
Perhaps, for skeptics, there’s a need to read Asiwaju’s content at the Chatham House Event. The transcript, hopefully, should be available very shortly on the Chatham House Website. Asiwaju demonstrated how visionary he is and keys effectively to the incredible rate and scope of advancement in the 21st century. Undoubtedly, this century is moving at an astonishing speed creating a new external environment in which exceptional scholars and creative individuals oversee leadership and public service issues. Asiwaju insists that he was never just a guest speaker or an orator at any of the events he attended. He always thinks more creatively and does more things than his peers do. Because of this wisdom, Lagos is now a world-class city that is prosperous, politically stable, and financially sound. During an interactive session at the Chatham House in London, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT), a one-of-a-kind individual, displayed uncommon courage and teamwork.
For emphasis, Chatham House is a Royal Chartered Institute, and Think Thank is purely a professional Body. The Body of Knowledge used by Asiwaju confirmed an exemplary that suffices that excellence is all about details, and pedagogy is all about addressing issues irrespective of your approach. I have been a full member of Chatham House for over a decade. Asiwaju’s presentation is deeply rooted in the ethical approach to promoting the application of the Tim Sheep Farming Philosophy of Team leading. That is why that presentation will surely win a Chatham House Award. Please, let’s embrace issues and stop trending toward dangerous sentiments.
One needs to read Asiwaju’s Content at the Chatham House Event. The transcript will be out very shortly on the Chatham House Website. Look out for it!!! Asiwaju cannot convince all Nigerians to vote for him, but he is a front-runner in this election; he will surely win with wide margins by God’s Grace! His brilliant outing at Chatham House merely strengthened this projection as well as the projections of reputable global polling firms that have projected Asiwaju as the clear leading candidate in the coming election after shuffling many critical variables.
The distraught opposition PDP and its equally distressed cohorts are using Asiwaju’s exemplary performance at Chatham House to take the minds of Nigerians away from their distressing performance in an ill-fated Lagos rally and other places in their miserable Campaign stops. I did hear from Alex Vine that Chatham House invited both Atiku and Obi, but they have yet to accept the invite. In 2014, I was at Chatham House when Prof. Attahiru Jega gave a lecture on elections in Nigeria. The current INEC will also be offering an address at Chatham House shortly.
In the past, the presentation approach has been straight-jacketed. For instance, I was there when the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Hajia Amina Mohammed, came to give a lecture at Chatham House, and this approach I have observed this as a full member of Chatham House for over a decade. The House, the UK Royal Chartered Institute for International Affairs, has accommodated a host of other top Nigerian dignitaries likes: Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State; the University of Ibadan (UI) Vice Chancellor, Professor Idowu Olayinka and the then Nigerian Ambassador to the UK, Justice George Oguntade, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Great UI. Also, in 2019, at different times, former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Governor Raji Fasola SAN, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, and many others visited as guest speakers. My position is simple: Asiwaju’s lecture and his use of Tim Sheep Farming Philosophy of Team leadership (a very similar approach to today’s Seat at the table) are uniquely commendable globally. That gives me renewed hope that with Asiwaju’s Presidency, Nigeria will be respected again.
Friends and colleagues, you don’t have to be intellectual to agree with me that Asiwaju’s approach to answering questions at Chatham House is a unique andragogical approach to show Team Leading leadership strength, which remains in a thoughtful category that if you can keep a team for Twenty years, you can run effective human government inclusively for Twenty years without diminishing in strength!
And that leads to my response to one Mallam Mahdi Shehu’s bile-ridden (you can read envy-ridden) cynic reaction to Asiwaju’s outing yesterday. In case, here it is:
“When people like Mahdi Shehu do such a disservice to over 209 million Nigerians by claiming that Asiwaju’s Chatham House outing was a scam, it calls to mind why most of Nigeria’s politicians and associates continue to remain ignorant and quickly turn themselves to politicians without global reputation. Listen if you care to; Asiwaju’s performance yesterday has been globally applauded for various reasons: firstly, it reminds of Abraham Lincoln’s style of political capacity. Bringing in your team in such a manner can only be an exemplary articulation of authentic and outstanding servant leadership that most developing Nations need to scale up and grow Nations.
Haven has been a full member of the highly reputable Chatham House. I meet regularly with top researchers, politicians, leaders, presidents, prime ministers, election uppers, and much more globally and highly respected. Aside from that, Asiwaju projected a progressive winning team; no guest speakers over the last decades exhibited such a high level of knowledge application, bringing to light once again one of the ancient and liked philosophies of Tim Sheep’s style of getting your team to global relevance. When I heard from eminent politicians like Nasir El Rufai, Wale Edun, Dele Alake, Ben Ayade, Betta Edu, Femi Gbajabiamila, and others, I received a renewed hope that when Asiwaju becomes Nigeria’s President, Nigeria will be respected again.
Even Dr. Alex Vine, the MD of the African Programme and the Chair of that event, commended Asiwaju for such a resonance of wisdom and ability to unify his team ingeniously. How can someone exhibit a high level of ignorance to claim that Asiwaju scammed Chatham House? I call Mahdi Shehu to reflect and apologize for misleading some people and displaying such unacceptable ignorance.”
I will now call on Sowore Omoyele to apologize to Nigerians for saying, “London is trying to force sick Tinubu on Nigerians.” As silly, outrightly mendacious, and downrightly jejune as this was, it shows that Sowore is still trapped in a perpetually childish mindset that sees him throwing little and of no effect jabs when he gets defeated on an issue as Asiwaju’s Chatham House super outing did. Simply, people like Sowore are gasping for words at the sheer success of the outing and are panting for words hence that unreasonable assertion. Since I don’t take issues of such kind, you will agree that even the international communities are firmly saying that Asiwaju’s Presidency is what Nigeria needs coming 2023, and indeed the big thing coming for us in Nigeria as a country, by God’s Grace.
Please, you should not allow non-performing, ‘plane-crash’ campaign political parties and sour-grape-hauling no-hopers to take your mind away from a great big thing coming to Nigeria with Asiwaju’s Presidency by God’s Grace. Asiwaju is the looming big picture that no immature, puerile nay-saying can stop. You don’t have to be an intellectual to get this right, but be sincere, and you have reasons to convince yourself that you have done well to see the full fruition of Asiwaju’s Presidency in 2023.
We are at it again, Nigerians marching to elect Mr. President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the front-runner in this election. Let no one accommodate thoughtlessness to things Asiwaju is doing. Asiwaju has taken an intellectual, entrepreneurial, and professional approach in his campaign, coupled with an enormous grassroots methodology that has never been seen in our democratic history as a Country. He has already expanded our political dictionary, which has been recommended for global inclusion. He is currently trending by incredibly working and interworking with a winning team on an international campaign to demonstrate that he will be a great President of Nigeria if elected in 2023.
Please permit me to leave you with this: ignorance kills disingenuously; Asiwaju demonstrated how exemplary a leader he was at Chatham House. How many of Nigeria’s politicians have the progressive capacity to keep their team together as a team of Tim Sheep Farming Philosophy? As he did with Lagos, he has shown that none of the prattling candidates contesting for the presidency with him has his capacity, and that is why they concentrate on hailing cheap stones at him, but they are struggling in vain.
So, let us speak to issues and not sentiments! Asiwaju is the big next thing coming to become Nigeria’s President next year by God’s Grace! His superlative outing at Chatham House just reconfirmed this.
Prof. Ojo Emmanuel Ademola
