{"id":71265,"date":"2018-01-02T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T08:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/?p=17867"},"modified":"2018-01-02T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T08:40:11","slug":"tit-bits-prof-akin-oyebode-akin-oyebode-jurisconsult-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/tit-bits-prof-akin-oyebode-akin-oyebode-jurisconsult-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Tit Bits from Prof. Akin Oyebode: “Akin Oyebode Jurisconsult” et al"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. is retired but certainly not tired. When asked to give a peek into his post retirement plans, Prof’s revelation attests to the fact that you can indeed retire and not be tired.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, to put it bluntly, I have an appointment already to be a professor of law and founding dean of a faculty up country. I have not accepted and of course again it might cause some dislocation. I did that in my younger days leaving my wife here and going to Ado-Ekiti. I know the sacrifices she made. Even the food I was eating was from Lagos. She would cook and the driver would bring them to me and I put everything in the freezer. So 25 years ago we could do all that but now I don\u2019t know. Just one offer to be a professor but that offer came before the recent development of earning my salary for life. So if I am going to earn my salary for life, how much does a man need?\u00a0 If I am going to continue to earn my salary until I die, then I might not need to go up country or anywhere else. Again my wife told me recently that whatever I resolve to do, I would still need an office because she knows with a passion that even if I don\u2019t practice, I would need an office even if it is\u00a0 to read newspapers. So, we could have an office and put a shingle out \u201cAkin Oyebode Jurisconsult.\u201d I don\u2019t have a wig or gown and I don\u2019t plan to go chasing ambulances now at my age but if people feel that they want to consult I would be available.<\/p>\n

Again I have two grand kids who are quite young so even getting to sit down with then and just spend quality time is also part of the plan. Then I might write a second edition of my book. I want to do a book on jurisprudence to document my experience. The proposed title of the book would be\u00a0\u201cThinking About Law\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0Trying to show how people have contemplated law across the ages. Then of course my children said maybe I need to do an autobiography. They wanted it during my 70th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday celebration but I didn\u2019t have the time. But I have promised to write at least my memoirs. If I cannot do autobiography like what you did here today, then I can just write about my experiences in Ado-Ekiti with the title \u201cManaging Poverty: The Travails of a Vice Chancellor in Ekiti Land\u201d,<\/em>\u00a0because it was tough. With regards to the Government Assignment you mentioned, one professor of medicine after the senate gave me a standing ovation came to meet me and said \u201cProf, please don\u2019t go into politics o<\/em>\u201d. I said\u00a0\u201cwhy?\u201d \u201cAre you saying those in politics are not human beings?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 She said she is just begging me not to go into politics that they would mess me up. So, I said thank you. So people have their ideas.<\/p>\n

Finally and most importantly, I am very grateful to God. I was on admission in LUTH last year where I thought the end had come. In fact I actually told my sister I was prepared to meet my maker and she responded\u00a0\u201cbut your maker is not prepared to meet you.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0So, I survived and that to me means my time is not up so there is a lot more to do. Some say I don\u2019t look 70 and I say to them I feel my age don\u2019t judge a book by the cover. I live every day at a time. I cannot make long range plans. I went to the 70th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday celebration of one of my friends some time ago and the Archbishop climbed the pulpit and the first thing he said to my friend the celebrant was; \u201cwelcome to the departure lounge<\/em>\u201d. And we said \u201cwhat is that?\u201d He said,\u00a0\u201cat 70 you have your boarding pass; you are just waiting for your flight to be announced.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>It was a poignant statement because what the bible ordained is three score and ten. So, every day after 70 is a bonus so you cannot make long range plans.\u00a0 I told a friend that my daddy died at 75 and I plan to surpass him. He said,\u00a0\u201cyes you can plan but you are not in charge of how long you stay.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Generally, I just relax and see how things progress. My ideas are not etched in granite, they are not frozen so I will take life as it comes. If I die now, people would say a life well lived. At 70 what else do you want? I am grateful to God that he is giving me the carriage. I don\u2019t look it, I am not tired. I lived an active life. I leave every other plan to the almighty.<\/p>\n

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