There is a sphinx-like quality to Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro. His genius burns with electricity that that no earthly contrivance could tame. Wherever he finds himself, he parades his smarts at astounding depths.
Little wonder staff of TETFUND were thrown into a whirlpool of joy last night and commended the Federal Government for the re-instatement of Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro as the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND, with immediate effect. It was gathered that Bogoro has resumed position as TETFUND boss. Bogoro was in the same capacity at TETFUND between April 2014 and February 2016.
According to one of the staff who wouldn’t want his name mentioned in the press, “With unrivalled ardour, compassion and strength of character Bogoro tirelessly seeks to couch his leadership as a defense of the masses. He is regarded as revolutionary mastermind whose ideas provide the foundation for advancements that help Nigeria grow from a struggling society into a notable African power”.
Indeed, Nigeria is replete with a superfluity of dogmatic leaders, both respectable and corrupt; those who have devoted their lives to the advancement of their countries and their people; those bending history, rewriting existential narratives, cracking glass ceilings and breaking barriers while leading others by the hand and taking the road less travelled to the Promised Land. Whether during peacetime or catastrophe, the leaders remain steadfast and stoic. Bogoro is no doubt one of the leaders.
He said further, “It’s an onerous task to unbolt the hub of who Bogoro is and what he represents; notwithstanding, friends, family and business associates may seek contentment from the fact that a man like he symbolizes the universe’s rarest gift to mankind. This galactic gesture is borne from the universe’s belief in man’s unusual capacity to rebel against the conventional and stun the odds while manifesting as something more than a curse or blight to humanity and the future”.
“Bogoro is no doubt a rare phenomenon and gift to this generation. While most of his friends, family, and business associates are already in the know and appreciate this fact, like the infinite crowd of folk that constitutes mere acquaintances to him, they are continually stunned, captivated and humbled by the man, his infectious humility, and generosity of spirit.
Bogoro is several things at the same time to everyone and anyone: he is a humanitarian who depicts raw compassion expressed with the greatest refinement and discipline; he is an aesthete with stormy sublimity, unimaginable genius and that famed vision of ingenuity that separates the practiced from the mediocre; Bogoro to most and all of his acquaintances radiates an entirely different reality amid the world’s brutal capacity for ill and insensitivity; his humility and graciousness in his dealing with friends and established foes (particularly on the political turf) alike manifest as a sharp, shrill yet, pleasant contradiction to the ugly and vulgar reality that daily becomes the plague of the mortal world.
Forgive the seeming inclination to fawn and project the good graces of Bogoro but he is simply all that and much more. Beneficiaries of his rare humanness frequently have wonderful stories to share from their encounters with him. However brief or protracted the encounter is, he snatches grief from acquaintances and replaces it with joy”.
