coder After watching the Acting
President, Professor Yemi
Osinbajo in Benin City, Edo
State, on TV live during his fact
finding meeting with the good
people of Edo state, I realised
that he is totally not a Nigerian.

He listened to all speakers with
rapt attention and
concentrated interest.

One
could see him practically and
personally experiencing the
pains of the abandoned and
raped people of the Niger
Delta. Even when there was a
mini riot in the hall he
remained calmed and probably
prayerful as an ordained man
of God.

If the mild drama of mini riot
that played out in the hall had
happened in a situation where
even a local government
chairman was in charge, the
chairman would have ordered
the security men to shoot at
sight. If the person in charge
was a state governor or a
President, he would have
ordered a massive arrest and
inglorious shot at perception
and at sight, but the learned
and erudite scholar and legal
luminary of international
acclaim did not do any of that.

Rather when he responded he
said he equally shared the
grievance of the aggrieved
Niger Delta people.

This is un-Nigerian.

For a
leader to share in the pains of
the people and not to deal with
them for daring to engage in
mini riot in his presence shows
that the goddess of pride, the
delusion grandeur and
megalomania tendency usually
associated with the average
Nigerian leader at virtually all
levels are not in the Acting
President. For him to order all
the oil companies to move
their headquarters to the Niger
Delta is a wonderful act of
justice and healing of the age
long injury inflicted on the
Niger Delta people.

That he visited the Niger Delta
states differently and
interacted directly with the
people and even visited the
creeks to personally access the
horrible situation is worth
more than commendation.

No Nigerian leader at his level
has acted like this.

This is the
reason I doubt if Acting
President Yemi Osibanjo, SAN,
is a Nigerian.

Probably he is a Moses in the
making to the Niger Delta
people.