Warren Bennis has described leadership as the capacity to translate vision into reality; while General Montgomery states that leadership is the capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. In the view of Austrian-American management consultant, educator, and author, Peter Drucker, “leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. The above leadership quotes are just to corroborate the fact that Alhaji Sule Salihu Enehe just perfectly fits into the responsibility thrust upon him by the Almighty God and the Kogi State government.
In very recent years, Nigerians have become more agitated and much concerned with the many complexities associated with governance. Today, leadership roles are increasingly in the public domain and since important questions concerning its role and performance in Nigeria have been raised, the general public and the entire academic community have shown an intense on who should lead. Sociologists as well as political scientists have begun to view the issue of leadership as a subject for serious study. Nigerians are asking questions as to why much progress had not been made since the nation’s independence. The readily made answer is that there is strong leadership vacuum and hence, the development in all sectors has become a mirage. Leadership failure has been the bane of many African countries, but in recent years, there is a loud call for a paradigm shift and Alhaji Enehe, a Chartered Accountant and an administrator par excellence has joined the queue for this call.
Who is Sule Salihu Enehe? Sule Salihu Enehe; the Acting Executive Chairman, Kogi State Internal Revenue Services, is an energetic, self-driven, creative, resourceful, forward-looking professional with an extensive work experience in both public and private sectors of Nigeria.
He is an alumnus of Achievers University, Owo in Ondo State, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting (Forensic), Masters of Science Degree in Accounting from Salem University, Lokoja, Masters in Business Administration (MBA) (Financial Management) from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso. In his quest for more knowledge and self-development, he is presently pursuing his PhD Degree in Accounting at University of Nigeria, Nsukka, accompanied with several local and international seminars and training.
He has expertise in the following field:- Accounting and Financial Advisory, Auditing and Investigation (Forensic), Tax Services and Advisory, Public Sector Reform and Analysis, Business Process and Re-engineering and Human Capital Development and Training.
Sule Salihu Enehe is a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), Fellow of Chartered institute of Taxation of Nigeria (FCTI) and Associate of Risk Management Academy (ARMA).
Career wise, he has over 20 years work experience across five (5) different organisations in Nigeria. He was a Director of Tax Audit and Compliance, which, at interval, he also became the Director of Finance and Account with the Kogi State Internal Revenue Service before his current position as Acting Executive Chairman at the same establishment. He was also Director of Finance and Administration with Be the Change Organization (BCO), Abuja.
He worked as Audit Manager with Nasir Ozamah and Co. (Chartered Accountant). He was also Area Senior Finance Officer in-charge of Area V, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, under the defunct Nigeria Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTEL). He was a part-time lecturer with Unique Professional Tutors, an ICAN-accredited professional training centre in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Sule Salihu Enehe is a turn-around manager, a transformational leader, bound by the ambition to achieve business objectives and with excellence. He was Directed by the Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to take charge as the Acting Executive Chairman, Kogi State Internal Revenue Service, on November 17, 2021, being the most senior Director of the Service, after the exit of the former Acting Executive Chairman, Mr. Yusufu Abubakar, to enhance revenue growth of the State to finance her developmental projects.
Sule Salihu Enehe, is a man with a humble beginning, with no silver spoon in his mouth. A man, whom you would like to meet personally, he is good looking, loving, a trusted friend, reliable and accommodating. His patriotism for his fatherland, his unquenchable love for a disciplined life-style, his insatiable appetite for challenges, his spirit of perseverance and endurance and his tenacity of purpose, all combined to make him a good leader and representative of his people. He is incorruptible, always displaying skill, dexterity, brisk, competence and he is very humane. Enehe is a proven achiever with an irresistible charisma and a track record of leadership qualities such as transparency, honesty and accountability have made many people to see him as a true leader of the people.
Alhaji Enehe is truly fired up by the possibility as well as the enterprise nature of the good people of Kogi State as well as the urge to develop it beyond human imagination within a very short time of his leadership. He relates to people as if he had known them all their lives. No matter how lowly their status, they cannot feel ill at ease with him. The man seems permanently engaged in building bridges of understanding across the State.
Whatever anyone may feel towards Mr. Enehe, no one is likely to accuse him of a lack of competence or enthusiasm towards the task of performing his official duties and the development of Kogi State. If anything, his critics are more likely to charge him for being too workaholic and committed to the development of the State through his good policies on governance. His patriotism and enthusiasm are never in doubt. He is a strong observer with a feeling heart, a man who is genuinely moved by the plights of others, a personality rare to find nowadays.
He is a multi- talented, distinguished Kogite, and a dedicated personality with his modest calling in helping people, he identifies their needs and acts as a catalyst and a bridge from their current state to their next level. He is a dynamic, resourceful and goal driven individual saddled with the responsibility of bringing values to the lives of every Kogite and Nigerian.
He is also a man full of life, energy and focused. The vast experience he has in resource management has aided him to bring the much desired progress and development to Kogi State. He is not influenced by any sentiment but rather believes in performance-not just performance but high performance.
In some quarters in Kogi State, he is been described as a man of great vision who means well for everybody, kind, amiable, honest, loyal, unbendable in principles, cool-headed, brilliant and frank to the core. Today, Alhaji Enehe is working hard to reposition the Kogi State Internal Revenue Service for greater heights for the benefit of Kogites.
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