Outstanding students and authorized consultants have raised considerations over Africa’s management deficit, stressing the pressing must reform the continent’s management recruitment course of.
Talking at a valedictory lecture marking the seventieth birthday lecture of the previous Director of the Distance Studying Centre (DLC) of the College of Ibadan, Prof. Adebayo Okunade, audio system together with former Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC), Prof. Adeolu Akande; a former Chief of Workers to the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, Prof. Emmanuel Olugbade Ojo; a former Speaker of the Oyo State Home of Meeting, Dr. Akin Onigbinde (SAN); a famend scholar, Prof. Osisioma Nwolise; a Analysis Fellow on the Nigerian Institute of Worldwide Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, Azeem Salako; Prof. John Ayoade, and others lamented that there’s a critical management deficit in Africa.
The students confused that for Africa to get it proper, its management recruitment course of should be examined and recalibrated.
The programme, which occurred on the Massive Lecture Theatre of the College of Social Sciences, UI, had the theme: “Is Management Adequate to Ship Nationwide Transformation?”
Organized by the Political Science Division of the premier college, the occasion was additionally in commemoration of Okunade’s retirement from the Political Science Division of the Ibadan college.
Talking as a discussant, the Professor of Comparative Politics on the College of Ilorin and the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s former Chief of Workers, Ojo, argued that poisonous management was accountable for nations’ failures.
The professor mentioned Nigeria and the continent are in nice want of purposeful management, mentioning that there’s a generational drawback on the continent.
The political science scholar mentioned: “The strongest attribute of a pacesetter is imaginative and prescient. A frontrunner will need to have imaginative and prescient. With out imaginative and prescient, there is no such thing as a tomorrow. Chief Obafemi Awolowo had a imaginative and prescient; that was why he succeeded. There’s a critical management deficit in Africa.
“Presently, there’s an pressing must reinvent management in Africa. With out that, the consequential impact can be telling not solely on the continent but additionally on the entire world. African leaders in all aspects require a sort of full reorientation for a servant management mannequin to evolve.
“The continent, certainly, is in nice want of purposeful management. The present set of leaders wants a normal overhaul or ought to give approach for the emergence of a brand new set. However the present circulating governing elite, little question, has been a clog within the wheel of progress.”One other discussant, Salako of NIIA, mentioned the aim of management is nationwide transformation, and the management recruitment course of should be examined.Additionally talking, Prof. Adeolu Akande, a political scientist and media persona who was the chairman of the event, mentioned the nation wanted to overtake its management recruitment course of.
Akande mentioned: “Nigeria wants management that’s visionary, principled, and environment friendly. And this additionally applies to the difficulty of the recruitment of leaders. That’s a really critical challenge when it pertains to schooling. You also needs to not overlook the cleavages in Nigeria. These are points that affect management recruitment and the construction and efficiency of management in any respect ranges, notably the federal authorities.”
Onigbinde, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who was the primary Ph.D. pupil of Prof. Okunade, mentioned there might by no means be a quick-fix recipe for the management recruitment course of in any nation.
The previous speaker mentioned: “Any entity that prioritizes confirmed competence and character under the possession of money can’t count on to have the identical outcomes in management recruitment as others with extra elegant values deal with as priorities.”
Additionally talking, Prof. Nwolise mentioned: “If we don’t care for the management recruitment course of, we’re going nowhere. We should care for the electoral course of, and electoral regulation should be adhered to. If we don’t do this, within the subsequent 300 years, we can be the place we are actually.”
On his half, Prof. Ayoade mentioned schooling is vital to a greater future for the nation.
The Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Fee, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, who was a pupil of Okunade, delivered the valedictory lecture.
Olaopa mentioned, “A frontrunner, as a change agent, requires a management framework that’s distributed and multilevel to have the ability to interact with varied dynamics of issues {that a} state faces.”
Additionally current on the programme had been Prof. Adewale Yagboyaju, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, Peter Olapegba, Dr. Samson Olalere, Prof. Ezekiel Ayoola, Dr. Stephen Lafenwa, Prof. Adigun Agbaje, Prof. Oyesoji Aremu, the Vice Chancellor of UI, Prof. Kayode Adebowale, who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Prof. Peter Olapegba, Dr. Idowu Johnson, and a number of others.
All of them lauded the humanity and affect of Okunade in academia, political exploits, and management improvement.Responding, Prof. Okunade thanked those that graced the event to honour him.
