Dear All,
(1) It is indeed a day to celebrate excellence, loyalty, hard work, consistent excellent professional services to humanity and our fatherland.
(2) Dr. Kayode Opeifa is indeed one the Nigeria’s brightest minds. He’s always real, frank, brutally honest, diligent, and almost a perfectionist.
(3) The origin of P-BAT ACADEMICS AND PROFESSIONALS GROUP is the handiwork of a few of us, including Dr. Kayode OPEIFA who played a critical role in shaping our focus, engagement and relevance.
(4) As a Board member of the Nigerian Railway Cooperation (NRC), Dr. Opeifa deployed his best endeavors as a foremost transportation expert and former commissioner for transportation in Lagos State, and his deep insights in mid-wifing LAMATA and other rail projects initiatives in Lagos State and served the country excellently and passionately.
(5) The appointment of Dr. Kayode OPEIFA as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Cooperation (NRC) is another bold, loud statement from the Bola Tinubu administration that excellence and competence count much more than “political patronage”. Dr. OPEIFA is just a perfect fit for that sensitive job.
(6) As a Group, we appreciate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing a first-rate professional in person of our own Dr. Kayode OPEIFA as the MD, NRC.
(7) As a Group, we pledge our continuing commitment to adding critical values and input into the affairs of this administration as volunteering professionals and intellectuals.
(8) We promise to sustain our critical inputs through our seminars, workshops and cluster activities and through all our Directorates and State structures to positively engage the process of governance and add technical, professional and critical values.
(9) Our Group and members stand out in different ways. We are a group of established intellectuals and successful professionals from diverse fields who have been supporting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since aspiring, to primaries, to election and beyond. While others merely blindly criticize, we positively evaluate, engage and offer positive insights as SOLUTIONS to add to the success of the Bola Tinubu administration.
(10) It is in view of this that we appreciate the appointment of Dr. Kayode Opeifa, one of our founders, a trustee and member of the Governing Board of our Group, as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Cooperation (NRC).
Congratulations, our amiable leader, Dr. Kayode Opeifa. We wish you a brilliantly successful regime, and many more years of active service to our fatherland and humanity in general.
We thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing a man of excellence in person of Dr. Kayode Opeifa a former Board member of NRC, now MD, NRC.
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
This GIANT called Nigeria is rising again!
Prof Yemi Oke, SAN, PhD, FCTI, FCArb
Convener and National Coordinator
P-BAT Academics and Professional Groups
Dated 22nd Day of January, 2025.
