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The Lord bless my V.P [quote author=joedrae post=40765786]Olalekan Adetayo: Before vice president Osinbajo, the workaholic, breaks down

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is no doubt hard working. He looks very energetic. Even his stature speaks volume of him. He carries that frame swiftly any time he is trekking from his end of the Villa to the President’s office and he does that very often. He shares that stature with the likes of Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and probably Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State. Without sounding immodest, I also belong to their association. El-Rufai has whispered to me and some other colleagues belonging to that group that the Vice President is our patron. I won’t disclose the name of the association, but by our stature, you shall know us.

I am not a medical doctor but having watched activities in the Villa closely since he and President Muhammadu Buhari moved into the seat of power, I will advise that Osinbajo should slow down. His activities so far have not left anybody in doubt that he is a workaholic. He resumes very early in the morning and remains in his office till late in the night almost daily.

Osinbajo has been going round the states of the federation from the North to the South on behalf of his boss. There are times he makes two or three states in a day! He has also made many foreign trips on behalf of the President. His attitude to work has become a subject of discussions, though in hushed tones, among members of his staff, most of who believe that they are being overstretched.

For instance, a day to the opening of the presidential retreat organised for ministers last month, I was reliably informed that the Senior Advocate of Nigeria was in his office till about 2am preparing the paper he presented at the event. This notwithstanding, Osinbajo arrived the venue with the President at exactly 9am. I wonder whether he slept at all.

As if that is not enough, Osinbajo sat through the programme while Buhari left shortly after declaring the event open. The Vice President returned to his office after the event and started treating files that he could not treat while at the venue. By 9am the following day, he was already in the old Banquet Hall venue to preside over the activities of the second day.

Penultimate Wednesday, he was in Ikenne, Ogun State where he hosted the President and other well-meaning Nigerians at the burial of the matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief HID Awolowo. He played a leading role in the burial because his wife, Dolapo, is a grand-daughter of the deceased

Surprisingly however, Osinbajo was again on hand later in the day when Buhari hosted Senators to a presidential dinner at the new Banquet Hall. He had managed to freshen up and change his clothe before attending the event. Many of his close aides were looking very tired. “The work must be done” was the reply of one of them when I told him that I did not expect that Osinbajo would attend the event.

On Tuesday, he started his activities by taking part in the 2015 National Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Summit held inside the Villa. Shortly after that, he played host to a delegation of Global Good Fund co-founded by Bill Gates in his conference room. While those guests were still finding their way out after the meeting, Osinbajo’s convoy was already leaving the Villa. He left for Yenagoa, Bayelsa State where he represented Buhari at the grand finale of the campaign of the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Timipreye Sylvia. Another task that the Vice President has been carrying out dutifully is that he has always been on hand at the airport to receive his boss whenever he is returning from any foreign trip.

One other thing that has been glaring since he took over is that the Vice President, who is a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has also ensured that state duties do not affect his spiritual life. He still attends the monthly vigil that holds in the church’s camp located on the popular Lagos-Ibadan Expressway every first Friday of the month. His workers even told me that he still attends evening services such as Bible Study (Digging Deep as it is called in RCCG) and Prayer Meetings in one of the parishes in Abuja and still return to his office late in the night to continue work.

Don’t get me wrong. I am not in any way suggesting that Osinbajo should abandon state duties. Far from it. I am also not suggesting that he should jettison his God. I am only advising that the Vice President must avoid breaking down. I know that as a religious person, if he is reading this, he may be uttering words such as “I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me” or “I shall not die but live, to declare the glory of God in the land of the living.” Let me make it clear that I am not wishing him any evil before he will scream “Back to sender!”

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It is good we v a serious changer to give the president a respite but just ask Obama what his normal working is like then you will know we r being sucked up by other lazying politicians and civil servants

totalhouse:

Hmmmmmm, a good advice though.

A very concerned writer, whom I think was objective but could not but voice his worry about the disposition of renowned Professor and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to work; picked up his pen advising the former university don, full-time pastor and respected lawyer to soft-pedal lest he breaks down.
It is not particularly incomprehensible when people from this part of the world, start to wonder when they come across an extremely hardworking and passionate Nigerian especially on Nigerian soil.
We live in a society where disposition to work, especially in public service has degenerated so low that a phraseology “organized private sector and disorganized public sector” has been conceptualized.
The profile of Prof Osinbajo is in the public domain for everyone who cares to vet and conclude on logically. His consistency, dedication and non-slothfulness as a young man made him earn his first degree in Law at age 21, Masters in Law at 23, promoted to professorial cadre at 33 years old and bagged the prestigious position of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) at 45. Nothing less than dint of hardwork and ingenuity can make any individual rise to this enviable height.
He was a counsel at the International Criminal Court at a time when he was fully presiding over the Olive Tree Parish of the Redeem Church located in Banana Island, Lagos as Pastor. His international engagements as Ethics Adviser of The African Development Bank (ADB), Staff Member United Nations Operations in Somalia (UNOSOMII), member Committee of Experts on Conduct and Discipline of United Nation peace-keeping personnel around the globe amongst many more did not affect is local engagements.
I for one at the outset of my relationship with this leading expert in the law of evidence could not fathom how a man could have excellently combined all of the responsibilities chronicled above and not break down.
With the global economic slow down and its attendant spill-over to Nigeria, oil - the mainstay of our economy currently at a 6-year low coupled with myriad of challenges facing Nigeria, one should not but expect exceptional commitment from the duo of President Buhari and his Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
What is expected of the Nigerian people instead of being worried about the agility and dedication of both the President and his Vice is to continue to support this government with our prayers, patriotic deeds and actions as those are the only qualities that can make Nigeria livable for todays’ people and posterity.
God bless Nigeria!!!

MzPecs:

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