IF your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
This famous quote by John Quincy Adams, an American statesman, diplomat, Senator, member of the House of Representatives and the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829 aptly describes Okunrin Jeje Abiodun Oni.
Abiodun Oni had a humble beginning that lacked any silver spoon instrumentality. He’s brave at heart and large in vision, he braced the odds and confronted the enormous challenges of conquering his environment and making the best of his grassy backgrounds that have amazingly metamorphosed.
Okunrin Jeje is a workaholic. His days are typically packed with meetings and activities, leaving one wondering how he copes.
He has the vigour to go through the tough day then awake to do it all over again. His pace and agility is often confounding. He would move from granting audience to one dignitary to another, from one meeting to another and from one brainstorming session to another, and yet another.
As he meets the diplomats and prominent leaders from far and near, so too does he grants audience to the lowly-placed, solving their problems and attending to their needs, almost always skipping his meals and forgetting to attend to his own needs.
Okunrin Jeje has written his name in the Guinness book of record, whenever the history of this political era in Igbeti, Olorunsogo Local Government is written, it will be said that there was one man, Okunrin Jeje Abiodun Oni, who stood firm in the commitment and courage to make his dream a reality.
He stands alone when he makes the tough, necessary decisions, not minding how he will be perceived.
To cap it all, he’s one of the few leaders who I have met in recent time who valued loyalty and reciprocate loyalty.
Abiodun Oni did everything within his reach to position and empower his boys, today his boys are doing well in government.
Today, as you celebrate your 55th birthday, I celebrate you as a great man of many colors: vibrant, excellent and steadfast. May glad tidings be your very endeavours.
Adesina Julius Oluwamayokun
