If you don\u2019t like something, change it. If you can\u2019t change it,
\nchange your attitude. It is your attitude, more than your aptitude, and
\nthat is what determines the height of your achievement in life.<\/p>\n
Many people think that luck plays a major role in the lives of
\nsuccessful people, but I don’t think so, because I believe awareness,
\ninformation and company of people you interact with, often than not
\ndetermine the level of your success.<\/p>\n
Take, for example, people living in villages. They never dream of buying
\nan aeroplane. Most of them have never entered a car in their lives, not
\nto talk of a plane. So they don’t have the ambition of owning a plane.
\nIf you were in Europe, your first contact will determine how you will
\nend up in life.<\/p>\n
The people you associate with will determine the type of job and career
\nyou are likely to end up with. I remember when astute politician,
\nSenator Ganiu Solomon brought Barrister Muiz Banire to Asiwaju Ahmed
\nTinubu in the year 2003, some of us were not happy, because we preferred
\nDr. Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat. Hamzat had graduated from the University of
\nIbadan and was a strong member of the Muslim Students Union.<\/p>\n
Of course, very reliable and intelligent, Banire comes from the same
\nMushin axis with Dr Hamzat; he was made a commissioner for 12 years and
\nlater, Legal Adviser to the All Progressives Congress (APC) national by
\nAsiwaju Tinubu. Banire was then the youngest among us all.<\/p>\n
I was looking for an opportunity to become a commissioner under the late
\nLam Adesina administration at that time, but I was told by_ BABA BISI
\nAKANDE_ that Aare Arisekola was pro-North and their party AD is
\nanti-North. And besides, I was too young to serve under Baba Lam
\nAdesina.<\/p>\n
So he directed me to go back to Ibadan and collect a written letter from
\nAare that he wanted me to join their party, AD. So, the opportunity that
\nMuiz Banire had in Lagos was not available in Oyo. Bola Ahmed Tinubu did
\nnot place an embargo on age limit, and we did not have that in Oyo.
\nMajority of Asiwaju’s kitchen cabinet members then were young and
\nintelligent guys.<\/p>\n
When it came out in the media that Banire was asking an un-intelligent
\nquestion of how to defeat godfathers in Lagos, I wasn’t surprised
\nbecause he was only fortunate to be in the right place at the right
\ntime.\u00a0 Some of us who he met in politics are still struggling till
\ntoday.<\/p>\n
He was introduced to national politics by the same godfather who he is
\nnow thinking of defeating.\u00a0 What an irony!\u00a0 But I think some of us are
\nalways over-rating people above their intellectual capacity. When a
\nSenior Advocate of Nigeria from the South-West now needs someone like
\nNasir El-Rufai to lecture him on how to defeat a godfather in the South
\nWest, it really becomes doubtful.<\/p>\n
If that SAN had any intellectual ability, it brings to question on his
\nintegrity. In fact, this is awkward. Banire’s paternity and academic
\nqualification need proper scrutiny. I even doubt his Yoruba lineage.
\nThere is a popular proverb in Ibadan that it is easy to take people out
\nof Mushin but very difficult to take Mushin out of them. Banire is just
\nshowing the Mushin part of him. Simple!<\/p>\n
AARE WOLE ARISEKOLA_ writes from Ibadan._<\/p>\n
If you don\u2019t like something, change it. If you can\u2019t change it, change your attitude. It is your attitude, more than your aptitude, and that is what determines the height…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"\n