Nigeria: "It Was a Painful Decision to Come Back Home"

21 November 2009
analysis

Lagos — Chief Ademola Seriki, the Otun Aare of Lagos and the ebullient Minister of State for Interior is the rallying point of many heart warming ideas. And he surrounds himself with some of the brightest minds of this generation who also see him as a prototype of excellence.

Versed in the art of grassroots politicking, and blessed with an uncanny gift to see kilometers ahead of his peers and opponents, the fair-skinned man of means never shies away from saying it as it is. Ademola is never tired of supporting good governance. With a disposition that borders on reticence, one can not but wonder what this genial gentleman is doing in politics; a vocation perceived by many as being replete with intrigues, conspiracy, back stabbing and so on. Blessed with a rich occidental drawl - a spin off of his background, education, exposure and progressiveness - Chief Seriki has a temperament that is both refracted and subdued, depending on what issue he is discussing. Beneath his luxuriant accent however, lies a smoldering fire potent enough to consume the prevailing gerontocracy, and lethal enough to retire itinerant political jobbers traversing the political landscape.

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