Former presidential candidate Fela Durotoye has recounted how his integrity and values saved him from troubles in the past.
He recalled an incident where he was offered a lucrative contract to provide ethical leadership training across Nigeria but was asked to inflate the invoice.
Citing his commitment to ethical leadership and his values, Durotoye said he refused.
He noted that accepting the offer would have compromised his integrity and undermined the program’s purpose.
He revealed that three months later, four people in the Presidency were arrested by the EFCC for stealing N425 million allocated for the same ethical leadership programme.
Durotoye emphasised that if he had accepted the offer, his reputation would have been tarnished.
In a video, Durotoye said: “A few years ago, I’ll not say how long, but it’s not this administration, it’s not last administration it’s a while ago let me leave it like that. I got a phone call and it happened to be a Man of God from Abuja who called me to say Fela, there’s an opportunity that I want you to explore, infact let me be clear with you,you have already gotten it.
“So I said okay,what is it about? He said we wanna run a program called Unethical leadership and when we did some kind of vetting,we said we were looking for three things, number one we are looking for someone who has experience and expertise on ethical leadership, number two we were looking for someone who had the reputation of experience and expertise on ethical leadership, and the third one we were looking for somebody who had the capacity to run ethical leadership training across 774 local governments in 8 weeks.
“So the person must have an army of trainers that can train in 50 local governments at the same time on Monday and Tuesday, and those people will now move to another local government and train 50 so therefore in one week they would have trained 700 local governments.
“He said we know what you’ve been doing raising speakers, you have speakers corner, you have speakers connect we know all of these things,we know what you’ve been doing in the banking sector,we know you’re the only one that has all three,so please give us your invoice. So we went and I called my team together and said make sure everything is at cost,the pencil must be at cost, the bag the paper, everything. (TheNation)