THE RETURN OF OLUSEGUN RUNSEWE…

• WHY BUHARI APPOINTED HIM AS NCAC BOSS

Like Napoleon Bonaparte, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe puts his country before everything, but unlike the late French Emperor, Runsewe embarks on no bloody quests for power and applause.

The manner of patriotism he champions, nonviolent as it is, inspires his contemporaries and younger compatriots to become champions. Disgrace may tarry for the night but honour comes with the blaze of the morning sun, to enliven the life of the shamed. This timeless maxim recently played out in the life of Olusegun Runsewe. Before the resurgence of his luck and fortune, too many people thought he was done for. Yes, some people thought he was finished, particularly when he was removed as boss of the National Tourism Development Commission (NTDC).

But Runsewe was hopeful and prayerful. He didn’t mind that he was given the boot as a consequence of high-wired politics.

It will be recalled that Runsewe’s first outing as NTDC boss was revolutionary. He worked round the clock including Saturdays, when his fellow DG’s were at parties.

Runsewe is an unrelenting tourism apostle; so doing he made a lot of friends and enemies. In 2013, the hawks in PDP struck not because he did not deliver but because he is “an OBJ man”. According to reports, Otunba Segun Runsewe’s first outing in NTDC was revolutionary and apostolic. And he has promised that this second ‘missionary journey’ , as the new director-general of National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), would surpass the achievements of his first outing at NTDC.