By Kamil Opeyemi
Former Postmaster General of the Federation, Dr. Ismail Adebayo Adewusi, has said that the victory of President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the just concluded presidential election is a reward for tenacity and the unrelenting pursuit of vision.
Adewusi is a member of the Policy, Research & Strategy (CRS) and the Grassroots Mobilisation & Orientation Directorates of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.
He stated on Thursday in a statement personally signed by him that the President-Elect’s road to victory is a lesson for all.
Adewusi, a Commissioner for Finance and later Budget and Economic Planning under Tinubu in Lagos said “Here is a victory that carries with it a heavy dose of lessons for humanity. He had set his eyes on the ball and never for once took his eyes off that goal,” Adewusi said in a statement.
The former governorship aspirant in Oyo State said since his path and that of Tinubu crossed more than three decades ago, he had known him as a tenacious man, never giving up until he achieves his target.
“Serving as his Commissioner for Finance, at perhaps the most turbulent period, when the monthly allocation of Lagos state was stopped by the Olusegun Obasanjo-led Federal Government, was an eye-opener.
“At a time when the sole aim of that action by the federal government was to cripple Tinubu’s administration and force him to succumb to the whims of the centre over the constitutional right of the state to create more local governments, Tinubu grew more resolute and put all of us to task. That was the beginning of the real deal for Lagos in terms of revenue generation,” Adewusi said.
Saying Tinubu is always firm in his convictions, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Postal Service said he has no doubt that this tenacity of purpose and strong capacity for visionary ideas are what the incoming Nigerian president will be bringing to the table.
“He has what it takes to take courageous decisions. Those decisions might appear, at first, to be tall orders, but in the end, they always prove more enduring and comforting,” he said.
He expressed optimism that Nigeria’s socio-economic crisis of the last few years would soon fizzle out, saying that what global investors needed are indicators to the fact that there is capable, responsible, and responsive leadership.