I rejected El-Rufai as my successor over immaturity – Obasanjo

I rejected El-Rufai as my successor over immaturity – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed that he rejected an offer to make former Kaduna kingdom governor, Nasir El-Rufai, his successor in 2007, bringing up El-Rufai’s loss of maturity on the time.

Obasanjo made the disclosure in Abeokuta, Ogun country, on Friday, October 24, all through the second version of the Ajibosin Platform annual symposium, themed “significance of leadership in Governance.”

the previous president defined that the concept have been put forward by former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, who had recommended El-Rufai as a capacity successor. El-Rufai served underneath Obasanjo’s administration because the Director-preferred of the Bureau of Public enterprises before being appointed Minister of the Federal Capital Territory from 2003 to 2007.

Recounting the activities in a lighthearted alternate with Chidoka for the duration of the symposium, Obasanjo said, “He used to be pushing when i was leaving authorities that his pal, El-Rufai, must be brought in as my successor.” Turning to Chidoka, who used to be seated a few of the panelists, Obasanjo asked, “No be so?” to which the former minister nodded in settlement.

Obasanjo persevered, “I did no longer yield to the stress. Later, he stated, ‘I counseled this individual, why didn’t you agree?’ I said El-Rufai needed to mature. when I left authorities and, many years later, he saw the performances of El-Rufai, he got here back to me and said, ‘You’re truely accurate. El-Rufai had to mature.’”

whilst he declined to advocate El-Rufai at the time, Obasanjo stated he held appreciate for each El-Rufai and Chidoka, describing them as individuals with “unique attributes” who contributed extensively to his administration’s fulfillment.

speaking at the essence of leadership, Obasanjo harassed that true leadership calls for man or woman, exposure, enjoy, and proper training. “It’s solely in politics that i discovered out there’s no education for management,” he said. “Even amongst armed robbers, i used to be instructed there may be apprenticeship. but it’s only in politics that there is no schooling in leadership. That’s no longer accurate sufficient.”

In his keynote cope with, Osita Chidoka argued that Nigeria’s challenges stem in large part from what he called “the politics of alibi,” in which excuses replace responsibility. He stated management must be measured now not through speeches however via systems that make certain efficiency, transparency, and continuity.

“management unearths its real degree no longer in aura but within the structures it leaves in the back of. Nigeria’s trouble has in no way been a shortage of ideas; it is the absence of structures robust enough to outlive their authors,” Chidoka stated. He advised leaders to transport from rhetoric to measurable effects via more potent accountability systems and institutional monitoring.

The symposium’s convener, Aare Olanrewaju Bakinson, said the occasion aimed to deepen the discourse on moral and effective management. “management is not pretty much strength; it’s about responsibility, imaginative and prescient, and provider,” he said.

amongst the ones gift on the event were Senator Shuaibu Salis (Ogun Central), the Olowu of Owu country, Oba Saka Matemilola, the Olota of Ota, Oba Adeyemi Obalanlege, and previous Ogun country First girl, Mrs. Olufunsho Amosun.