.....celebrating an Icon; a worthy PURPOSE DRIVEN LEADER & MENTOR whose unparalled legacies daily challenges us to "step up" our "Leadership Quotient" and who was described on his passing to the great beyond as "The Best President Nigeria Never Had" by somebody who has every cause to detest his guts and vision.....!
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Chief Awolowo was a man of humble beginning who by dint of hard work, self denial and singleness of purpose, rose to become a legal and an economic luminary; a political organizer; a social engineer and reformer; a premier of his people, a political leader in Nigeria, a religious faithful who promoted religious development, irrespective of sect; an educational revolutionary whose singular educational purpose was to provide free and compulsory education at all levels; free health, full and gainful employment to all Nigerians.
He was a founder, promoter and supporter of higher educational institutions, including Teacher Training Colleges, Colleges of Technology and Universities. He was in the process of completing the establishment of a Research Medical Centre when the cold hands of death snatched him away from us on the morning of 9th May, 1987. He is best remembered in Nigeria and in the world, today, as the one Nigerian who, besides his political exploits, strove to provide for his native people that he led as Premier, and his nation that he sought to lead as President, free education at all levels; free preventive and curative health; full and gainful employment; and, integrated rural development a strong, industrial national alchemy.Read More @ http://nigeriaandafricarenaissanceinitiative.blogspot.com/2011/02/chief-obafemi-awolowos-development.html
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