[Law Mefor]

Pro-o-o-f!!!

I am constrained to beg your pardon, prof. on some of the examples that have damned your piece.

Ribadu and El Rufai became laws unto themselves and lent credence, through their actions, to the general feeling that they were mere tools in Obj’s hands and therefore no good examples of leaders. I do not see them as exemplary leaders, too. El Rufai, in trying to clean up Abuja left behind tears and sorrows and blood. What is exemplary or wonderful about El Rufai reallocating hundreds of plots to himself and cronies? Any ***** in power can do it and I want to believe that Prof Utomi I beleive I know cannot rape his nation as El Rufai did. Doesn’t Professor Utomi that many Nigerians look up to for future leadership find such action antithetical to leadership and development?

Ribadu could not confront those in Obj’s good books and till he left office he couldn’t trace IBB’s loots though he could tell the world that his (IBB) ilk would never rule Nigeria again. He showed that ‘nobody is above the law’ except himself and Obasanjo. He became even bigger than the Police force that produced him and could cuff a serving IG that posed no danger and drag him on the ground before the watching world before the judges could do their job.

In fact, if El Rufai and Ribadu are our first eleven in leadership and development, then, the nation has no chance of developing in the nearest future. Their contributions were far more harmful than good and those imitating them or trumping them up as shining examples of leaders are only showing how pathetic our situation has become - roundly.

El Rufai particularly should face the charges of corrupt enrichment and fraud hanging on his neck. Hiding in the US to escape justice is not my idea of leadership and courage. He rendered thousands of Nigerians homeless and built not a single house in his 5-year stay in the FCT.

So, Prof. , I disagree with your examples because they contradict the tenets of leadership you espoused in your otherwise beautiful write-up! Any leader, even of a town union, that is not above board is not worth the name. And El Rufai is a proven fraud (from BPE to FCT) and Ribadu a mere showman. Their pretensions to leadership were just a camouflage to mask their real motives as arch enemies of the people and nation.