Reminiscing About Oloye Adebayo’ ADELABU’ s Unexampled ‘Bonhomie ‘Qualities On His Birthday | Isiaka Kehinde
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Leaders are not made of oaks and rocks, one doesn’t have to get a degree in in petrology to know a leader. As Ralph Wado Emerson says” every great institution is a shadow of a single man” Here is a leader per excellence whose ability to reflect hastily and handle challenges with peception has resulted in his business ventures now spreading wide like an inferno in woodland. This is translating vision into a broad reality. He is a leader who takes care of little mistakes,reflect and act pronto. That he rises to the top meteorically can only spring surprises to those who are caught unawares of his “Midas touch”.
When last he lost the political contest , many taught that it would come as a ” faithless misfortune” but suprisingly ,he rather sees it as an “investment into the future”.like a restless eagle that fare well in a turbulent weather, he has never seen failure as final. He sees it as part of the learning curve to be better and more matured. He believes and always encourage others that” we do not to be consumed with the past when the future holds more opportunities for us”.
Oloye ADELABU ADEBAYO is a lode star who in the works of Friedrich Nietsche , whose source of happiness is rooted on those on whom he shinest. He doesn’t share Marxist believe in each one according to his needs. He shares his wealth and as G Marcel says ” exist to coexist. He builds happiness in the souls of the people.
Like his grandfather, the man of panache and eclat,late Adegoke ADELABU, Adebayo’s best moments are when he is in the midst of people. His only turn off is intolerable insolence , to him everybody matters. ADELABU foundation has continued to be a beehive of activities where the old and the young go as he provides enablements to their various aspirations.
Another rare quality that stands him out his bluntness. He is not one to build your castle in Spain nor tell you buttered lies to curry your favour. He say it as it is. He can be frank to a fault.
He inspires others to be better. He must be on president John Quincy mind when he said ” if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”
He is not a leader with flutter of words. He rarely talks when a nod will do. When he talks people know he has marshalled his facts and figure, and there will be a pin drop silence. When I ventured to ask him why he doesn’t come on air often to reel his facts.He replied” am not a Carping critics. I don’t talk merely to villify the Government, that is dirt cheap. I only talk when I observe a ” ticking time bomb waiting to go off ” and convince that the little sore is becoming cancerous.There is no wrong action, just choices and consequences.”
Today is not to write epistle about the Sterling qualities of ADELABU ADEBAYO. It’s a glorious day to be thankful to God for giving the mankind this priceless gift ,it’s a day that Billy Collins in his famous Sonnet describes as “a day that Laura will tell Petriarch to put down his pen and sing to the glory of God”
Oloye ADELABU ADEBAYO is the former CBN deputy governor and the governorship candidate of APC in Oyo state in the last election.
Oloye Adebayo Adelabu had attended various local and International trainings, seminars and conferences including the University of London School of Management Development, the Euromoney Executive Education, UK, the United States Institute of Internal Auditors in Orlando, Florida, Harvard Business School, Boston USA, Wharton Business School, Pensyvalnia, USA, Stanford Business School, Carlifornia, USA and Columbia University Business School, New York USA.
While in Central Bank of Nigeria, he served as the Chairman, Board of Directors of the Financial Institution Training center (FITC) and also sits on the board of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC) and the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural
Lending (NIRSAL).
He has been conferred with many titles including Agbaakin parakoyi of Ibadan land , Aare Asoludero of Ado Awaye and many others. He is also a recipient of the Ibadan distinguished fellowship Award and other several merits award . He is a distinguished lagelite and Chairman of 1987 set of lagelu Grammar school,old students.
Today ,Oloye ADELABU ADEBAYO is plus one and I will like everyone to welcome him to a new age with the exquisite song of Mozart s ” laudate Domiinion” to celebrate this great asset . Wishing him a happy birthday and many happy returns.
