BOLA BOLAWOLE
to the brightness of thy rising.” (KJV). We can go on and on! If there is one thing I am taking away from reading this biography, it is that Gov. Umo Bassey Eno’s ARISE agenda is of God. In the womb of time, God knew it, as he told his prophet in Jeremiah 1: 5: “Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before you camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” (KJV). That was why Umo Bassey Eno eventually became the one that was chosen and anointed, the inside story of which you will find in this biography. My special thanks go to my brother and comrade-at-arms during those epochal years of the June 12 struggle, Dr. Moshood Ademola Fayemiwo, and the co- author, Dr. Margie Marie Neal, for this opportunity. I commend this work to all and sundry.
* BOLAWOLE, holder of B.A (Hons) Ife; M.Sc. (Ibadan); Doctoral student (UNILAG); Visiting Lecturer, Trinity University, Yaba, Lagos. He was also at various times Editor, Chairman, Editorial Board, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of PUNCH newspapers. He was Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of THE WESTERNER newsmagazine and recipient of the Distinguished “Great Ife” Alumnus Award of the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly University of Ife), Ile-Ife. He was also Director Media &; Publicity, Marwa Presidential Campaign Organisation 2006; Member, Media Sub-committee of the Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Inauguration Committee, 2011. He has been writing the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the SUNDAY TRIBUNE newspaper since 2006 and TREASURES column in the NEW TELEGRAPH newspaper since 2016.