BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO A QUINTESSENTIAL OCTOGENARIAN

It is with a surging sense of overflowing reverence that I felicitate with my father, mentor, benefactor and leader today, the eminent Chief Joyce Ogbimi Osula, the Bobajiro Oka Land and the Otun Amuludun of Ibadan on the occasion of your 80th birthday on this terrestrial ball!

Baba, no son could be more proud today to be associated with a father with such a prodigious sense of moral rectitude, an avalanche of cognitive competencies, that is inimitable in prolific intellectual outputs, and a peerless dose of Spartan discipline, all rolled into one model humanity.

The glowing distinction of your service to the nation as a business mogul of the Osula Nigeria Enterprises (ONE) fame and as Vice Chairman of Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJ) which was chaired by the former Inspector General of Police, the late Alhaji MD Yusuf is there for all to see and stare.

Perhaps even more famous as a family man, lover and father, your unrelieved patrilineal example has been a source of unrelenting inspiration to young upstarts like me. Your public image is scintillating, your counsels illumining, and your general narrative a revered inspiration!

Baba, God has been kind to you at 80. This is wishing you a really Happy Birthday for a life of Honour.

Towering Regards,

Owen Chamberlain Obaseki JP
The OTAIFOH of Uromi.
27/07/2021