"I don’t think that any parent should give up on any child".....Gov. Babatunde Fashola. “I was very horrible with mathematics, I just managed to score 50 or 60 to pass it…; ultimately, the only professional course I could do without mathematics was Law”! Truancy and poor school grades were his call cards; according to him, “school was too much of a problem; there was football to be played, and I didn’t learn how to study until I was in the ‘A’ Level class”. The turning point came when he failed the West African School Certificate examinations; apart from biology, all the other subjects were P7 and P8, and F9 in mathematics! Consequently, his father refused to pay any more exam fees, and arranged for his apprenticeship to a motor mechanic! According to Fashola, “I think it was that shock treatment that changed my attitude; I went on to write the same exams again, and I passed, and I got into A Level class, and it was very good, and my dad said it was probably because I hadn’t discovered the football field in that school. In a sense, it was true; by the end of my first year, I got into the football team in Igbobi College, and the grades just started dropping! I tell everybody who cares to listen that I am a product of many chances; that is why I give second, third and fourth chances to anybody who is serious. I don’t think that any parent should give up on any child.” leadership & brilliancy hmmmmmmm any contradiction here?
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:34:38 +0000
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