There seems to me to be an air of arrogant lunacy within the ADC camp. And this is not even politics for me, just pure intelligent observation. There is something fundamental disturbing within their rank and file. If their Presidential candidate, Alh Atiku Abubakar isn't addressing the occupant of the office he has pursued relentlessly for over 3 decades, across 7 consecutive elections, with a disdain, disregard and screaming envy that depart rather conspicuously from the stature of decorum we have historically associated with him. Then the running mate. Rotimi Amaechi has announced to the nation that he left his ailing mother in her most fragile hour because he means to harvest politics from her passing. Better a barren womb than a son who shrinks the whole of our existence to the politics of foolishness. And then this one, Bolaji. First of all, I'm sure not many remembers he was Minister of Sports, because his performance was so underwhelming that his name does not feature in our day to day conversations about past performers. History records it that, it was during his unfortunate reign as Minister of Sports, that our paralympians who have represented this nation at the olympics, winning 12 medals: 6 golds, 5 silver and 1 bronze, despite their physical constraints, excelling where able bodied athletes had faltered, were denied their agreed rewards. These glory fetching athletes who were already bodily challenged were further subjected to financial and psychological torture under the mis-leadership of Bolaji as substantive minister of Sports. Both the athletes and their coaches were made to beg, grovel, weep, starve, lose dignity to be paid what they deserve. A physically fit Bolaji denied the handicap the worth of their sweat. That is the extent of the greed of a fellow now questioning the conpetence of another. Let me be clear. I am not in the employ of the Minister of Finance, and I am no influencer who invoices every contribution to public discourse. I am a writer and public affairs analyst, and it falls to me to sanitize our information space, so that nonentities do not dominate the firmament with falsehood. Now to his assertion: Is Taiwo Oyedele qualified to be Minister of Finance? He cited Pa Olu Falae as his standard for the qualifications a Minister of Finance must hold... I don't know how old Bolaji was in 1967 and I am not sure of his relationship with history books, but our finest Minister of Finance in history is Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who managed the economy succinctly in the period of extreme crisis and who afforded the nation a quick and logical end to bloodshed without lifting a barrel, and all that while still keeping the nation's economic buoyancy. Yet, Awolowo was primarily a lawyer... (I recommend my book, "Empire of Scars" to Bolaji, I spent substantial intellectual effort espousing Baba Awo's intellectual wizardry in the masterpiece). If a man who has pursued academic learning and earned qualifications in accounting, economics, taxation and related fields, with studies and programmes associated with institutions including Yaba College of Technology, Oxford Brookes University, the London School of Economics, Yale University, Harvard Kennedy School and Gordon Institute of Business Science, is still to be dismissed as unqualified to manage the nation's finances, then what precisely constitutes competence? And if more than two decades of professional experience, including service as a fiscal policy partner and Africa Tax Leader at PwC, working across tax advisory, fiscal policy, business strategy, regulatory matters and policy advocacy, do not constitute relevant preparation for the Ministry of Finance, then what does? Yet the man who wants to audit Oyedele's CV cannot explain the basics of our foreign exchange dynamics. It is the blind man who offers to teach the eagle about the sky. An illiterate lecturing a professor on research! Good Morning Severally... Shall I Begin???

History records it that, it was during his unfortunate reign as Minister of Sports, that our paralympians who have represented this nation at the olympics, winning 12 medals: 6 golds, 5 silver and 1 bronze, despite their physical constraints, excelling where able bodied athletes had faltered, were denied their agreed rewards. These glory fetching athletes who were already bodily challenged were further subjected to financial and psychological torture under the mis-leadership of Bolaji as substantive minister of Sports. Both the athletes and their coaches were made to beg, grovel, weep, starve, lose dignity to be paid what they deserve. A physically fit Bolaji denied the handicap the worth of their sweat. That is the extent of the greed of a fellow now questioning the conpetence of another.