By Olajide Hamzat
As the dusk faded into a chilling night, a flicker of fluorescent street lights descend with magisterial mighty. In an instant, social and economic activities around the once dull and sleeping street suddenly burst into an energetic cacophony. No longer the darkened and dreaded place, this street, a beneficiary of the state government’s Light Up Oyo vision roared back to life with renewed gusto. In one breathless whisper, people spoke with wholehearted admiration and love, sharing not just their hope but TRUST in a government that has done so much in infrastructural strides than any of his predecessors.
While trust in the government and its institution often attributed to corruption and bureaucratic bottleneck, to deliver dividends of democracy is often viewed through the lens of skepticism and cynicism, these people, caught in the web of economic hardship and inflicted wounds stood in sharp contrast to career wailers who only see challenges instead of opportunities and problems rather than solutions.
Although, when it comes to finding skeptics, cynics and pessimists, overwhelming can be an understatement. It is when you try to find optimists in the beleaguered nation that you will realize the depth of our nation’s challenges. Plus, when people felt an iota of trust particularly from the least expected places and people, it sends ripple through the whole community. How the country turned from one of huge potential to its current stagflation is in part the absence of trust in the system. Consequently, this dangerous malaise has metastasized into the heart of the country’s facet of life.
In reference to the five dysfunctions of a team by Patrick Lencioni that was explored past two weeks, we’ve discussed in details the danger of absence of trust in building a team. We’ve also explored the personal and professional accomplishments of Amofin Beulah Adeoye in this regard. That he has not only build a team that delivers incredible result, but has equally sustained the same winning streak in other endeavours. We also spoke about his uncanny ability to build a team that can stand the test of time and stay focus regardless of the storm. As we read through the impactful book, Lencioni spoke about absence of conflict as a fact that leads team to dysfunctionality.
Conflict here means an expression of different thoughts over a charged conversation. To foster a team’s success, Lencioni enthused, team members must be free to speak their minds, counter a view that test their intelligence and be bold to offer clarity on contentious issues. Take election. Most electorates work tirelessly for the electoral success of their preferred candidates only to watch as the same passion that propelled their actions hit the wall as their choices settle into power.
Instead of trudging the tough path of stirring healthy conflict, one that will keep their leaders on toes, they sadly resigned to fate, leaving such leaders to act with impunity and behave like rascals. In other words, for a team, small or big to accomplish much, it must learn to stir conflict and resolve it amicably. Beautifully, Amofin Beulah Adeoye, the legal titan is vast in stirring the wheel of progress through intellectual dialogue while resolving conflict with proven outcomes. He knows that only in an atmosphere of trust will the light of personal and professional success be brightly illuminated. He has the character, capacity and competence to fix one of Oyo’s biggest intangible headaches: trust deficit. As a private citizen, he has built several trust bridges across communities and categories of people and as a politician, he is carving an amazing niche for himself as a man who says what he mean, and mean what he says.
Olajide Hamzat writes about the various prospect and potential of Oyo state while projecting Amofin Beulah Adeoye as a solution provider, problem solver and creative, adaptive and innovative leader and thinker with compassion and empathy.
