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 realised 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 raped 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.
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