*Tinubu, Atiku missing
The editors of Nigeria’s premier biographical compendium on thought leaders, Portraits of Patriots: 100 Nigeria’s Foremost Thought Leaders have released the names of the 100 men and women who made the prestigious list.
According to the editors, Kammonke Abam and Tammie Edet Kammonke, the foremost consideration in determining possible listees for Portraits of Patriots: 100 Nigeria’s Thought Leaders was the extent of an individual’s inspirational value.
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Labour Party standard-bearer Peter Obi, business mogul, Aliko Dangote, Governor Nyesom Wike, Governor Babagana Zulum, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye and the Continental Overseer of the RCCG, Africa 2, Pastor Ezekiel A. Odeyemi lead the pack of those profiled.
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Others are Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed; President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, Bishop David Oyedepo, Pastor William Kumuyi, and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah.
Surprisingly, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Bola Tinubu, did not make the list.