Former President Obasanjo has
revealed how he chose the late Professor Dora Akunyili as the boss of the
National Agency For Food Drug Administration And Control, NAFDAC, while in
power.
He made the revelation while
speaking at the 14th annual lecture of the Women in Management Business and
Public service in Lagos. He said, “I was looking for somebody who would work in
NAFDAC.
There was an old man who was
there and didn’t really impress me. I had had a couple of meetings with him and
I found him not (to be) the type of man I would want to have on that job.
I was talking to a friend who
said, ‘Oh, there is a lady; she went to Britain for a medical (program) and
when she finished, she said whatever money was left from the money deposited by
her department should be sent back to the department.
And the people called her and
said, ‘Are you not a Nigerian? Nigerians will come here and say add something
which you would pay back to us later.’
“So, I said there is a Nigerian
woman like that, where is she? .
.
So, I located Dora and I said,
‘What is your profession?’ She said, pharmacy. I said pharmacy; I am looking
for a pharmacist for this job. She got the job.”
The former President said Nigeria
is not “short of women of virtue, women of character, women of integrity",
even as he encouraged women to get actively involved in politics.
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