According to Ford’s Kavita Ramdas, she said, “We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational and so disciplined they can be free.” It is not a gainsay that Aisha Ahman Pategi exemplifies all these sought-after behavioral tendencies.
In the last few months, she has, in reality epitomized great resourcefulness in the way she had handled the affairs of her former Ministry – Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy affairs. The ministry, before Hajia Aisha’s ascension of office was always considered a mere appendage of government – with little or no administrative relevance. The Pategi born politician in her ingenuity repositioned the ministry to an enviable status, making the ministry a talk of events and shows on daily basis.
She graciously turned around the ministry for a better deal that virtually all staffers who have been made redundant in the past now got lots on their table to do just for a better kwara. Without mincing words, Aisha’s track records within her brief stint in the ministry was a feat to write home about.
The Honourable Commissioner for Special Duties is a peacock in the flock of birds – her great virtues have distinguished her from her colleagues – Hajia Aisha is organized, intelligent. You can’t cow her into unintended ventures, she is arrantly fearless. She premeditates and preplans her actions to illustrate her calculativeness. She is so calculative that she all the time finds a new dimension to be added in government that will in turn give good governance to the people of kwara state.
There is no misgiving that Hajia Aisha Ahman Pategi love for kwara state is second to none and her passionate drive to turn kwara state to an enviable height is so genuine that she is always voracious when it comes to doing everything good to benefit kwara state and her populace. She is always passionate in doing everything good to benefit and transform good governance in the state. She consults both in the state and outside the state just in search of good ideas and projects for the state, she is always passionate about turning things around for good, she is indeed a blessing to the current administration.
Hajia is a virtuous and righteous woman. She is firm in decision and her words are her bond, always in the defence of the masses. She is always discreet and obliging. Every word she utters carries weight and can be relied upon. She governs herself by the rules of wisdom.
Look at her forehead and gentle mien – that explains her religiosity as fashion style is controlled by Islamic injunctions. She is always referring to the words of ALLAH in the only Qur’an and Hadeeth of rosooul (SAW) anytime controversies cropped up, she insisted that nobody could do anything ALLAH never ordained in life. She is always quick to say ”Tawakkaltu ala Allah” in everything that happened which means “I place my trust in Allah” which preaches “strict dependence on Allah for things that are out of our control.”
The gorgeously looking commissioner is an embodiment of humility at its peak – irrespective of your social class, gender or age – she treats you with extreme deference and affection. She always refers to fairly younger ones as ”my son or my dear” including me myself. And for fairly older folks she refers to them as ”daddy or mummy”. This is her way of portraying affection and genuine love to everyone she relates with, she is lovely and cerebral every time.
Truth be told, Hajia Aisha has been a generous and quintessential leader and woman whose philanthropic behavior has positively affected the society. She has in the past displayed lots of humanist behaviors that made me pounder on how specially, she was created. Even, as I reserve the right to mention names, Hajia Aisha Pategi had in the past assisted lots of the less privileged, paid their school fees even without any form of interpersonal relationship or acquitance with them, she is just in love with education. No wonder, Hajia Aisha Ahman Pategi gifts to everybody is barrage of books, she is an encyclopedia.
I boldly, confess that I have no regret dealing with her.
Hajia Pategi is just the mother of a young generation, she is always passionate about the younger generation’s development initiatives, especially those capable of retooling lives of the proletarat. This is the reason she is always surrounded by intellectual youths with sophisticated ideas. She had always supported every idea that leads to innovations and ground breaking accomplishments. She is always scientific in all ideas. Wow! Hajia Aisha always displays her all round countries ideas in all endeavors. I always described as a woman whose price is above ‘Rubies’. She is a woman who cannot be bought with any currency in the world; no price can be placed on her.
Because she is a woman, a mother, a womanist and feminist to the core, Hajia always shows that staunch belief in women development. She always appreciates and prefers women’s culture, women’s emotional flexibility (values tears as natural counterbalance of laughter), and women’s strength, she is committed to the survival and wholeness of the entire people. Hajia Pategi has been transformational for not only young ladies but for other women as well.
She is unreservedly of the opinion that beauty is found within the women circle. Nothing comes close to them than the sense of community, inclusivity and unconditional support, which she has continued to do.
No wonder, she has continued to thank and idolise women like: Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Fanny Lou Hamer, Janet Mock, Nichole Yates, Michallene Thacker-Mann, Jessica Stowers, Brandis Taylor Williams and Adrianna Drake and countless others who have used their words to advance the womanist cause and message the world over.
I always described Hajia Aisha Ahman Pategi as a woman whose price is above ‘Rubies’. She is a woman who cannot be bought with any currency in the world; no price can be placed on her.
On this glorious occasion, I hereby wish you a happy birthday, and may almighty Allah in his infinite grandeur catapults you to the tower of success.
Indeed, you are a shining light.
Oluwatoyin Luqman Bolakale is a graduate of Telecommunications Science, A Certified and etch network security specialist from International cyber security institute and specialised in Network security, mobile and wireless communications, He is a community developer and An Online Media Practioner currently the CEO/Publisher of Satcom Media