The rebound of Tunde Irukera, by Tunde Ollusunle …

I returned to the * Daily Times * of the past in October 1993, where I was already an editorialist and a special section publisher before proceeding with a absinthe leave, in March 1992. Prince Abubakar Audu of the Benedetta memory had been the first civil governor of the State of Kogi. I voluntarily came out of the system, however, because quantum chicanery, fading and Shenanigans in the public service were unrelated to me. In one case, I had been really accused of having distributed my goodwill in the national media to undermine my main, Audu! Here is a man who has entrusted a position of state responsibility to that age at a 27 -year -old. He got used to my style of principle of sharing a sofa with him in his living room and savoring wines and concentration camps, while high officials have pretensely crouched on the floor, their exaggerated lust of my frozen portions. Audu took me like a son until the cracks were dug in the wall by third parties and the lizards invited to celebrate in his cracks. Some falls of this situation were totally in contrast with my very rigorous education, the principles and the sense of professionalism. I was a son of many mentors and models that had high expectations from me. I had to take a position to save my name and my career.

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You needed to see the avalanche of messages of congratulations sent to the mail by mail, in the absence of modern ICTs for three decades ago, including my former teachers, the emeritus professors Olu Obafemi and Niyi Osundare, both worthy recipients of the Nigerian National Order of Merit. Without forgetting the deceased Alhaji Abubakar Gimba, former executive director of the Union Bank, and the United Bank for Africa, (UBA), with whom I had engaged in conferences of the Association of Nigerian authors, (Ana) and interviewed on literature and national development. I have never had the privilege of meeting the charismatic Multimilionary magnate and the next politician, Capo Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, (Mko), who surprisingly sent me a telegram. I had a long future in front of me, I appreciated the credibility I was cultivating and I would not sacrifice him for a bite of Porridge.

I reported for the first time to our offices at the Publications division, (TPD), AGIDINGBI, IKEJA, LAGOS, where I presented my letter by notifying the leadership of the Daily Times of my return from leave. Among the editors and colleagues, I was warmly welcomed. A leap began among the various publications of the Daily Times Stable, on which of them he wanted me the most. Dapo Aderinola, editor of the group’s top newspaper, the * Daily Times, * wanted me badly. I was a favorite writer, who was hunted in the head, loved and projected by my garments, in particular dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi, who as CEO of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, took me. The head onyema Ugochukwu, who was my publisher and general manager of TPD once minimized in a reminder in search of approval for my release for an interstatal assignment: *I have the feeling that there is only Tunde Ollusunle, and also Imoukhuede Ogunleye, (now removed), in that department. What are the other companions doing?* The* sunday times,* publication sister a* daily times* in which I was deployed for the first time after being used, was launching me.

Ugochukwu was already executive director, publications in October 1993 and should have approved my restoration and my deployment. It convened me to the company headquarters of the Daily Times Group in Kakawa Street on the island of Lagos. In his Baritone brand, he welcomed me from my assignment to Kogi and praised me to have been a good ambassador of the organization. He told me he was aware that he had been sought by every publisher of the title *”which is proof of what he leads to work.” *Having considered requests and options, however, Ugochukwu said that he had decided to unfold me in the editorial committee, the intellectual engine room is that your experiences may be your experiences, so your experiences may be your experiences, so your experiences may be your experiences that your experiences may be your experiences, so your experiences can be your experiences, so your experiences can be your experiences. Experiences, so your experiences can be your experiences, so your experiences can be your experiences, so your experiences can be your experiences, so your experiences can be your experiences that your experiences may be your experiences that your experiences may be your experiences. The organization’s advice has also approved your promotion commensurate with your new assignment.

I provide this background inspired by the recent encouraging appointment of Tunde Irukera, former executive vice -president of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, (FCCPC), as president of the Board of Directors of Veritas Kapital Assurance Plc. Irukera, a lawyer with three and a half decades of post-key professional experience, has practiced in Nigeria and the United States of America, in a very rich and rich career. It was a full -time Managing Partner, between 2006 and 2017, of * Simmons Cooper Partners, a registered office based in Lagos, founded by the former vice president Yemi Osinbajo, San. * Previously he was a lawyer with * partners, lawyers and consultants LLC, * concern of the law in Chicago, Illinois, between 2001 and 2006. Irukera with Osinbad as an appointment, the law of the law, a legion of the law, a law on the law of the law, a law on the law, a law concern the law, a legion of the law, a law, a law on the law, a legion for the law. Reformed and renamed Consumer Protection Council, (CPC), in 2017.

Irukera approached her work with the type of unusual dedication and creativity in the typically selfish public service of Nigeria. He wanted Nigerian consumers to be truly truly protected from criminal buffering and the murderous malice of Shylocks, cheat and latecomers masked by service providers, across the board. He committed himself regularly and rigorously with the parties concerned across the country and warned the Nigerians to report infringements against their rights. These were promptly absorbed by the FCCPC to the highest levels of jurisprudence. He was proud to appear in court, completely dressed as a lawyer, to fight for the people. Sundays were working days for Irukera. You saw him lead him personally the police to seal the institutions in error, not in corporate equipment, but in T -shirts, trousers for jeans and sneakers. Elsewhere, defaulting service providers were penalized in accordance with the provisions of the law. Penalties applicable to the designated and non -cannibalized government speakers have been paid between error organizations and flexible public employees, who collaborated to undermine people and the state. He reconstructed the former CPC from an entirely dependent department, to a financially independent parastatal, in the new FCCPC.

In 2023, the FCCPC under Iukera generated a historic billion n56. This was much more than the revenue annually generated internally collected by many states, especially in northern Nigeria. He has expanded the organization’s operations for greater effectiveness and has recruited many young graduates through very competitive test processes. He took off dozens of young qualified and competent by desperate streets. The new employees have covered the expanding operations of the reinvigorized FCCPC. After covering its wage invoices and general expenses, the FCCPC in 2023 has still put a nice n22 billion at the government coffers. Trophies and unsolicited awards have spilled for Irukera and FCCPC, in particular those who recognize the new transparency regime in the corporate government, as well as innovation and creativity in the civic defender of the transformed government.

It was therefore an agitated population that woke up at the news of the removal of Irukera and the former minister for humanitarian affairs, Betta EDA, the same day in the beginning of January 2024. Although no reason had been provided for the expulsion of Irukera, ED was clearly accused of enriched with corrupt. The Bola Tinubu Administration about seven weeks before the Senate was able to ratify the mixture that Irukera was “inefficient” in his work! Who was the painful part for a man who poured everything in his work. My repulsion in this development informed my piece * Irukera: how not to reward altruism * published on February 28, 2024. This explains my specific excitement to the appointment of Tunde Irukera on Thursday 31 July 2025, as president of Veritas Kapital Assurance Plc, a private sector clothing that gives priority to merit, competence and vision. Irukera never went to relax in the waiting rooms of the political godparents who hurry for recognition and absorption in the new scheme. He was totally under him. What are your well -deserved clothes and wig for?

I don’t deal with self -processing when I share my experience during my first excursion to the corridors of power in the state of Kogi, as I did here. I see a congruence in my experience and Irukera in the context of the fact that the truth and competence will speak for the right. After the expulsion of the third Republic of Ibrahim Babangida of Sani Abacha in the end of 1993, the successor of Audu, Paul Omneruo, reminded me and sent me to his successor Bzigu Apakirya who kept me for over a year. I also had the privilege of serving in the presidency of Nigeria, under a president more worried about the value I could offer, compared to the position of my father’s house in my community. And here is Irukera also rediscovered for the gem which is and promptly raised the president of the Hall of the Board of Directors of one of the main insurance companies General and not life of the nation. Irukera did well in chambers and courts in Lagos, Abuja, Illinois and elsewhere; You are absolute in the bowels Sleze “I congratulate this humble, beautiful and cultivated gentleman whose * yagba * remains unchanged through times and tides, celebrated this discreet specimen of finesse and commitment.

■ Tunde Ollusun, Phd, Fellow of the Association of Nigerian Authors, (Fana), is a professor of creative writing contract at the University of Abuja.

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