The music industry has become one of the most thriving
industries in Nigeria and this has grown in leaps and bounds since
the turn of the century. Many artists have graced the scene
inclusive of a certain David Adeleke (Davido) who has shown that he
has come to stay. Beyond his reputation of ’30 billion for the
akant ye’, he has developed a great fanbase, yours truly
inclusive.
Featured by our own Falz alongside Olamide in the hit song
‘Bahd, Baddo, Baddest’, the only notable contribution of Davido to
the song was his brag that ‘Dele na my boy’ stoking the fire of his
‘beef’ with Dele Momodu.
Today, I write about another Dele who however is not my boy but
is my man and boss. He is Dele Adesina SAN, a man who has committed
virtually the last four (4) decades of his life contributing
positively to the legal profession. The Jurist, Oliver Wendell
Holmes had regarded the life of the law as not being logic but
being experience but Oga Dele has shown that he has both logic and
experience in abundance especially if his intimidating profile is
anything to go by.
The legal profession in Nigeria has been in dire need of great
reforms and the past administrations have no doubt done their
bests. However, despite their best efforts, an egalitarian legal
society in Nigeria has been a mirage, at least so far.
Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam of Verulam and Viscount of St.
Albans (1561-1626) in the poem, Apothems wrote as follows:
”One of the seven was wont to say:
‘That laws (sic) were like cobwebs; where the small flies were
caught and the great brake through.”’
An egalitarian society is what oga Adeshina seeks to put in
place coupled with senses of belonging and responsibility in order
for the bar to retain its place as the pride of the legal
profession in Africa.
Deacon Dele Adesina like Prince Otto Von Bismarck believes in
the doctrine of the possible and the attainable. Thus, if you are
looking for sweet words so as to make you forget your worries in
the interim but no action, he might not be your man. He is however
the man who acknowledges problems and seeks to tackle them head-on.
With Adesina, I concede that good souls still exist.
My affections for Adesina SAN makes me think of joining a remix
of the song ‘Bahd, Baddo, Baddest’ but this time with the lyrics,
‘Oga Dele na our man, Dele na our man….’ This I’d have gleefully
done alongside legal practice but for the Rules of Professional
Conduct on incompatible business. ‘E pain me sha, but wetin man go
do.’
Adeboye ‘Seye Thompson writes from the Ilorin bar“
The music industry has become one of the most thriving
industries in Nigeria and this has grown in leaps and bounds since
the turn of the century. Many artists have graced the scene
inclusive of a certain David Adeleke (Davido) who has shown that he
has come to stay. Beyond his reputation of ’30 billion for the
akant ye’, he has developed a great fanbase, yours truly
inclusive.
Featured by our own Falz alongside Olamide in the hit song
‘Bahd, Baddo, Baddest’, the only notable contribution of Davido to
the song was his brag that ‘Dele na my boy’ stoking the fire of his
‘beef’ with Dele Momodu.
Today, I write about another Dele who however is not my boy but
is my man and boss. He is Dele Adesina SAN, a man who has committed
virtually the last four (4) decades of his life contributing
positively to the legal profession. The Jurist, Oliver Wendell
Holmes had regarded the life of the law as not being logic but
being experience but Oga Dele has shown that he has both logic and
experience in abundance especially if his intimidating profile is
anything to go by.
The legal profession in Nigeria has been in dire need of great
reforms and the past administrations have no doubt done their
bests. However, despite their best efforts, an egalitarian legal
society in Nigeria has been a mirage, at least so far.
Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam of Verulam and Viscount of St.
Albans (1561-1626) in the poem, Apothems wrote as follows:
”One of the seven was wont to say:
‘That laws (sic) were like cobwebs; where the small flies were
caught and the great brake through.”’
An egalitarian society is what oga Adeshina seeks to put in
place coupled with senses of belonging and responsibility in order
for the bar to retain its place as the pride of the legal
profession in Africa.
Deacon Dele Adesina like Prince Otto Von Bismarck believes in
the doctrine of the possible and the attainable. Thus, if you are
looking for sweet words so as to make you forget your worries in
the interim but no action, he might not be your man. He is however
the man who acknowledges problems and seeks to tackle them head-on.
With Adesina, I concede that good souls still exist.
My affections for Adesina SAN makes me think of joining a remix
of the song ‘Bahd, Baddo, Baddest’ but this time with the lyrics,
‘Oga Dele na our man, Dele na our man….’ This I’d have gleefully
done alongside legal practice but for the Rules of Professional
Conduct on incompatible business. ‘E pain me sha, but wetin man go
do.’
Adeboye ‘Seye Thompson writes from the Ilorin bar“
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