PDP National Secretary, Professor Wale Oladipo, says this February Nigerians will have to choose between Goodluck Jonathan the PhD holder and Muhammadu Buhari, the ‘semi-illiterate’ jackboot.

Oladipo isn’t saying Buhari cannot read and write in English, Hausa or Arabic. He isn’t accusing him of not passing through the precincts of some primary, secondary or military school. The former head of state has been forcibly demoted to the ranks of the illiterate because he didn’t attend a university.

Thankfully for the APC candidate that is no hindrance to his aspirations as the constitution only requires him to have secondary school education – a conditions he more than meets.

Given that Oladipo is some sort of professor it is amazing he does not understand that mighty accomplishments are not a function of your string of degrees. Some of the greatest business leaders the world has ever known are either university dropouts or never even had the tertiary education experience.

Names like Microsoft founder and one of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates; Oracle founder, Larry Ellison, worth $28 billion who dropped out of University of Chicago; Chelsea Football Club owner, Roman Abramovich, worth $11.2 billion – a college dropout who once sold plastic toys out of his small apartment in Russia.

But the most interesting example is Britain’s war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill who had a very poor academic record in school. He struggled through three independent schools before ending up at the famous Harrow School.

After leaving Harrow he applied to attend the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He would make three attempts before passing the entrance examination. Although he never went to university, Churchill is today regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century. He is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its inception in 1901, and has been voted the greatest Briton ever.

Strong leadership comes from your innate character traits, not the number of paper qualifications on your wall. Enough said.







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Give me a 90 year old semi-literate (or semi-illiterate) who can perform and I will choose him over and above a 50 year old Mr. Clueless, the PhD holder!