…….and why the Republican Red Wave engineered by Donald Trump has occurred is posted verbatim below:
“Excellent write up Sir. The damage could have been more catastrophic if Joe Biden had insisted on contesting. He should have served only one term and step aside for a chosen or elected party representative to emerge by consensus.
Kamala Harris suffered so much racism and gender biase/abuse. Racist America is yet to recover from the Obama miracle and then came Kamala.
However, a people deserve the kind of leadership they get. God help America”
Teaching was my first love as a profession and I had the rare privilege of being a teacher in few of the best Secondary Schools in Nigeria before coming to America.
The schools include Olofin Grammar School, Idanre, under the late Revd Ariyo from Ondo town as Principal. They include Queen’s School, Ede under a British educationist named Ruby Dunn as Principal. They include Aquinas College, Akure under late Revd Father O’Shea as Principal.
The last and not the least of those 4 schools is great Igbobi College Lagos under late Revd Olatubosun as Principal and Pa Talabi Esubiyi as his Vice Principal and late Mr. Olowu as Senior Tutor .
I am happy to report that the author of what I call the best summarized analysis of the American Election I have seen is one of the old students of Aquinas College and he happens to be my brother-in-law and one of the few self-made successful Businessmen of Nigeria today who has established arguably the most successful privately owned Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry in Nigeria, as we speak.
I am talking of the great Drugfield Pharmaceutical Industry located in Ota, in the outskirts of Lagos in Nigeria.
The gentleman I am talking about could be placed on the same pedestal with the great Aliko Dangote of Nigeria-the richest African and the pioneer owner or the highest shareholder in the biggest Petroleum Refinery in Africa.
You all can find out for yourself, if you are curious enough for you to want to know, but I am going to keep his name close to my chest and not reveal it in this write up out of respect for his confidentiality and privacy and because I know the gentleman is the type that would want to remain anonymous and not be put on the spot like that without my first seeking his permission.
He is not a politician. He is, in fact, a honorary Redeem Pastor with no Parish assigned to him because he likes his private and quiet life.
But I was so impressed with his summary of why the American Election had gone the way it did because what the gentleman had written in 2 or 3 short paragraphs posted above in lucid language was far superior to my own analysis of the Election that he got moved or fired up enough to comment upon because he had read my own analysis on the Social Media and he loved it enough to want to acknowledge it by sending me his own comment which amazes me as an old teacher of his Alma Mater and because I can tell a good and brilliant analysis when I see one.
His beautiful summary of the Election posted above is as good as it gets, and I want more of the fans of my column on the Social Madia to see it .
The gentleman does not live in America but he is widely travelled and he has brilliantly and completely captured the essence of what has happened in the American election that we are trying to understand and dissect as we witness Donald Trump apparently the worst American President become the come- back kid and the next President of the United States.
The story I am now going to share with you should clearly reinforce why I am sharing this comment from a quintessentially brilliant old student of Aquinas College, Akure out of many that I know that the great school has produced.
One of them, if I may digress a little, is one Julius Adeluyi, a former Nigerian Minister of Health born in Ado Ekiti, who has also become one of the most famous alumni of Aquinas College and one of the most successful Pharmaceutical Juggernauts of Nigeria, as we speak.
In 1963, I had followed my Godfather the late Chief AkinDeko, a good friend and political associate of my father to his home base of Idanre.
Chief AkinDeko had introduced me to late Revd Ariyo who was kind enough to hire me as a teacher at Olofin Grammar School where I had taught a young boy named Festus Akinnaso who, later in life, had made History as a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Temple University in Philadelphia – the City of Brotherly Love in the United States.
Festus had performed so well in one of the tests I gave his Class in 1963, and I remember giving him a bonus of 5 extra marks in that test because I knew that if I had sat the same test as his teacher, I could not have performed better than him.
So in my youthful exuberance as a young teacher, I decided to break the normal protocol for teachers by awarding a bonus of 5 marks thereby causing some panic or hoopla among his classmates and other teachers who had thought I was a rebel.
What I had done eventually got to the Principal and his Vice Principal one Mr.Titus Ohikhena from Otuo in the old Bendel State and late Egbon Oladipupo of Idanre. Mr Ladipupo was the Senior Tutor at the time and my highest qualification at the time as a teacher was my Higher School Certificate (HSC)
I got that certificate prior to my admission to Obafemi Awolowo University as a member of the second set of that University in September 1963.
The Principal and his Vice Principal and Senior Tutor had invited me to the Principal’s Office to explain why I had given Festus a bonus of 5 and I was happy to do it out of conviction and the 3 of them had unanimously agreed with my defense and they allowed my bonus of 5 to count.
It was my finest moment as a teacher at Olofin Grammar School and I remember it as if it happened yesterday.
You know that the same Festus Akinnaso, as I hinted, earlier on, had progressed in life to become the first among the old students of Olofin Grammar School to attain the promotion and status of a Professor at Temple University in the United States much to my own pride and everlasting fulfillment as his old teacher.
I was one of his old teachers to first identify his academic excellence and potential and I was proved right by what the young man had later become as one of the best Alumni of Olofin Grammar School to this day.
The young man who should now be in his 70s or thereabouts is still alive and can testify to my testimony here or issue a rebuttal, if I am lying or telling the truth?
It is a wonderful world. Is it not?
I rest my case.
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