Walai !
God Must Have Been Joking… The Day Seye Oyeleye Was Created!
Haa! Ẹ jẹ́ ká sọ òtítọ́.
Sometimes, when you look at creation, you begin to suspect that God has a sense of humour that borders on mischief.
Because how do you explain it?
One man , tall, glowing like fresh palm oil, teeth sparkling like NEPA finally decided to behaveyet his brain is permanently on sabbatical.
Another ,looking like a roasted stump abandoned somewhere around Arioyun Farm in Usi Ekiti, yet inside him burns a furnace of brilliance powerful enough to light up a nation.
And then… there is Seye Oyeleye.
Ah!
If you see him for the first time, you may quietly whisper to yourself:
“God, this one… na which day You create am?”
No intimidating height.
No distracting “fine boy” aura.
Complexion? Let’s just say the sun and destiny had a long-standing agreement.
In fact, if physical appearance were the yardstick for intellectual expectation, you might politely excuse yourself and say, Let me not stress this man with serious conversation.
But that is where God, in His infinite ,and sometimes puzzling ,wisdom flips the script and laughs at all of us.
Because the same man you have casually dismissed as a lightweight…
is the same man who will open his mouth—and suddenly, your own brain will stand up and salute.
You will sit down thinking you came to educate him, and before ten minutes, you are already taking mental notes like a primary school pupil.
Now, this is where the real satire begins.
Yes,Seye Oyeleye is a complete dullard.
The kind of dullard that sharpens your mind.
The type of dullard whose dullness dismantles complex regional development issues like a child unwrapping biscuit.
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This is a man who has operated at the nerve centre of strategic thinking in Western Nigeria ,
a key intellectual force behind initiatives like Amotekun,
and broader socio-economic frameworks that many only debate in beer parlours but lack the capacity to design.
A dullard whose thought process is so expansive you begin to wonder if his brain has no boundary fence.
A dullard who listens quietly, speaks sparingly, yet delivers intellectual punches that scatter assumptions like dry leaves in harmattan wind.
His mind is not just analytical , it is restless.
Restless for solutions.
Restless for possibilities.
Restless for development.
He is that rare breed ,
part thinker,
part strategist,
part philosopher,
and a relentless believer in the progress of the South-West.
You see, God does not always package brilliance in attractive containers.
Sometimes, He wraps genius in simplicity.
Sometimes, He hides depth behind quietness.
Sometimes, He creates a man like Seye Oyeleye
and dares the world to underestimate him.
And many have fallen for that trap.
They see the man…
but they don’t see the mind.
They look at the face…
but miss the fire.
They judge the packaging…
and ignore the power.
That is why I say ,God is merciful, but He is also a master strategist.
Because if He had given Seye Oyeleye height, dazzling looks, and overwhelming charisma, plus this level of intellect…
Haa!
Nigeria would have been too small for him.
So maybe ,just maybe
God reduced the physical…
to balance the intellectual explosion.
And in doing so, He created one of those rare humans that remind us of timeless Yoruba wisdom:
“Kí a má fi ojú wo ni, ká fi ọgbọ́n wo ni.”
(Do not judge a person by appearance; judge by wisdom.)
And if this is what a dullard looks like…
Then pray ,yes, pray fervently
that God bless this Nigeria with more dullards and daft men and women like Seye Oyeleye, DG, DAWN Commission.
Because, truth be told ,
Nigeria does not suffer from too many dullards.
It suffers from too few of this kind.
…A snippet from an encounter with Seye Oyeleye at his office in Cocoa House, Ibadan, Oyo State.
