Oshanupin was at various times, Commander Brigade of Guards in the Presidential Villa, and General Officer Commanding , of the Third Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, domiciled in Jos, among other top military positions held in the course of his eventful military career.
That was the manner of respect for competence, professionalism and capacity, which guided the intricate balancing, and intentional all-inclusion, which Obasanjo strove to ensure and pursue. This was catalytic in driving the national sociopolitical reengineering process during his stint at the helm of national governance and administration.
The sociocultural hybridity, professional expertise and human resource quality in the presidential wing of the State House, was similarly replicated in the Office of the Vice President, confirming the cosmopolitanism of Atiku, who lived a substantial part of his working life in Lagos. Olusola Akanmode, a tested bureaucrat was COS to the VP and he hails from Kogi State, while the legal adviser Maxwell Gidado, now a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and law professor comes from Adamawa.
It was under his watch that the nation’s security and intelligence sector, was reorganised, between 1986 and 1989. This birthed the tripod of the: State Security Services ; National Intelligence Agency and the Defence Intelligence Agency . He served as GOC, Second Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Ibadan; Chief of Administration, Defence Headquarters and Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy .
We will continue our discussion of the De Klerk transition programme which produced the first ever indigenous Black South African government, in another exegesis. My primary interest in this piece, however, is an interesting spinoff from Gusau’s correspondence which I find very interesting and instructive, relative to the issues of meritocracy in the conduct of government business, geo-religious balancing and national cohesion.
I would subsequently interact more frequently and robustly with Gusau in the course of the Obasanjo presidential campaign which commenced in the last quarter of 1998, and thereafter. Gusau it was who proposed Ugochukwu to Obasanjo as the Director of Publicity of the Campaign. I was the very first younger colleague of Ugochukwu whom he drafted into the project. He was at various times Editor, General Manager and Executive Director during his days in the Daily Times, and I served under him.
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