Mystery Man with a big heart, by Seriki Adinoyi

While everyone launches the battery to celebrate Prof Tunde Olusunle, a man who has had an impact on his generation in many ways, I just realized that I have never met him in person.

Yet this man has changed my perception, my reasoning and my opinions on life in general. He also had an impact on my opinions on politics and politicians in many ways.

How has I never met a man I learned so much? What is thick in him? How did I become one of his fans?

It all started with a phone call a few years ago…. “Hi Seriki, I received your number from your publisher, Tunde Rahman, and your MD, Eni B.

“I had discussed with them of a job offer that you might like it. So, I got your number from them to allow me to contact you .. After this call, I will send you two addresses and -mail. Please, send your curriculum vitae (CV) to them and I will return later.”

Of course, I was taken abruptly. How have I ever met a man that I never met discussing the job offer for me with my garments? How did he meet me? In these difficult moments, if a man has jobs, I thought he should first think about how to angent them for his brothers and cousins, I interrogated inside me.

But the voice that spoke with me seemed too sincere to be that of a scammer, and the details he gave me on my MD and my publisher convinced me that he was out of manipulating myself.

And if there is a job for me, would he have had to call my employers to discuss with them? Do you want me to fire me? The questions were infinite, but I needed to act.

I immediately called my wife and told her my meeting with the strange man, and she advised me to call my MD to confirm and that I should have been discreet about it.

With nervousness, I took my phone and I called the MD.

Mind you, my MD is a man of few words. “Lord, a man called me and he told me he had discussed me with you. He asked me to send my cv. Is it true, Lord?”. He simply replied “yes”, and this was all; No further information. Haba!

I was not satisfied with it, so I called my publisher. His words are not few like those of the MD. I expected to hear more from him. “My publisher, Lord, a man called and asked me to send him my CV. He said he discussed with you. His answer was” yes, send “. I tried to ask further questions, but he reattached. His words became few that day.

WELL. I took the “risk” to send my CV to the unknown man, who later turned out to be my lawyer.

He reconstructed my CV and he returned it to me, and it was like, Wow! The same CV that I sent now seemed different and better.

Later I realized that it is a name in Nigeria, especially in the world of media. He had worked with the former president Olusegun Obasanjo as a special councilor. He had also worked with military and civil governors in the past.

The government of the Governor Idris Wada in the state of Kogi at the time needed to involve someone to work with his excellence, and Prof. Olusunle was contacted, and I was the one who had come to mind, a boy he had never met, and in fact he did not even meet today.

It has not simply presented the CV. He pursued the job for me and continued to update me with any development. The rest is history.

But this prolonged my mind. How could I ever have met a man? Who could be this man and what is his interest?

But that’s he, a man with a big heart. He does it for people. He doesn’t have to know you.

I made several attempts to meet him, but this has not yet happened. But he continued to share his thoughts and suggestions on salient national issues with me. It has shaped my opinions on several problems.

Reading his articles also edited me to write better. A couple of times, he sent me some money to help my life.

How do I celebrate such a good man while he turns 60 today? My family and I prayed for him. It can only become bigger and better. A man who seeks the good of another can never go down.

Happy anniversary of the 60th birthday to a man with a golden heart.

■ Seryki, PhD, head of the bureau of the newspapers of this day, writes from Jos, Plateau State.

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