In a reflective LinkedIn post that has sparked conversations around executive wellbeing and career transitions, Amida spoke candidly about rebuilding his life after exiting the telecom infrastructure company amid ongoing discussions and legal processes involving investment firms Development Partners International and Verod Capital.

The former CEO said that while disputes over his unpaid severance continue, the bigger challenge has been adjusting to life outside corporate leadership.

According to him, leaving a top executive role is often more than a career change, describing it as an experience that can trigger an identity crisis when personal worth becomes closely tied to professional titles.

Amida noted that organizations often move on quickly after leadership exits, while affected individuals are left to quietly rebuild their finances, routines, and sense of purpose.

His comments come at a time when Pan African Towers has remained in the spotlight following corporate restructuring and shareholder disputes linked to the company’s acquisition process.

Techeconomy had earlier reported on a shareholder rights battle surrounding the acquisition of the telecom tower company, with Development Partners International and Verod Capital named in a legal suit over the transaction.

The company also recently announced the appointment of Jyoti Desai and Vivek Gupta as non-executive directors as part of efforts to strengthen governance and leadership oversight.

Beyond the corporate issues, Amida’s reflection focused heavily on resilience and mental wellbeing during difficult transitions.

Sharing lessons from the past 16 months, he advised professionals facing similar situations to prioritize emotional recovery before reacting impulsively, maintain transparency with family members about financial realities, and avoid making desperate decisions during vulnerable periods.

He also emphasized the importance of maintaining healthy routines, resetting lifestyle expectations, and separating personal survival from ongoing legal or corporate disputes.

One of the strongest themes from his reflection was society’s tendency to attach value and relevance to positions rather than individual character.

According to him, many people experience a sudden shift in perception once they no longer hold influential titles, a reality he described as both humbling and revealing.

Despite the unresolved severance dispute, Amida’s message remained largely hopeful.

He encouraged professionals experiencing setbacks to remember that their value does not disappear with a job title, stressing that the same ability that once created success can be rebuilt and applied again.

His reflections have since resonated with many professionals online, opening wider conversations around unemployment, executive mental health, resilience, and the pressures associated with leadership exits in corporate Africa.

Jyoti Desai, a former Group Chief Operating Officer of MTN, is a banking and telecoms professional with more than 35 years in the industry.

Her achievements in banking, including a stint at Standard Bank, include driving largescale transformation in the banking industry to streamline operational cost and shifting focus to customer centric, segment-based value propositions.

An experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry as well as fixed and mobile telecoms, she has more than 15 years’ experience in Africa and the Middle East.

Desai is also skilled in startups in emerging markets, notably in the technical, commercial and operational aspects of the telecom business, and has more than 25 years’ experience in cost and operational transformation, including digital transformation, large scale project execution, Service Delivery, 3G, LTE, Mobile Communications, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), and more recently 5G.

Vivek Gupta is a first-generation entrepreneur, investor and telecoms veteran. As Founder and Director of iSON Group, he has built a dynamic ecosystem of businesses in IT & ITeS, BPO and Telecom Infrastructure and Services, employing 20,000+ resources, spanning 40 countries across Africa, Asia and Middle East. Gupta became an entrepreneur in 2008 as CEO of Zamil Infra, iSON’s first joint venture with the $8B Saudi conglomerate, Zamil, that specializes in build and managed services for telecom passive infrastructure.

Under Gupta’s leadership, iSON Group diversified in Renewable energy, Digital infrastructure, Digital Healthcare and Health insurance sector. iSON Group has grown both organically and inorganically in last few years. He spent two decades creating an illustrious career within the telecom sector, working for multinationals such as Ericsson and IBM.

In 2008, he was recognized by Fortune as “IBM’s All-Star Salesman” for contracting over $5 Billion worth of business and executing high value transformational and ‘out of box’ deals, particularly path-breaking strategic outsourcing deals with Bharti Airtel, Idea & Vodafone that have gone on to become one of the most successful business models for the company.

“As can be seen from their profiles, both Desai and Gupta’s extensive global experience, and their contributions to the advancement of telecommunication, technology and infrastructural development in Africa and beyond make them invaluable assets for us at Pan African Towers, especially at this point in time where we are on a continuous improvement drive across our operations within Nigeria, and with a vision to grow our digital infrastructure base,” said Azeez Amida, managing director and Chief Executive Officer at Pan African Towers.

Pan African Towers was established in 2017 to capitalize on the growing demand for wireless communications across Africa and has since emerged as a prominent telecommunications and tower infrastructure provider.

It would be recalled that in November last year, Pan African Towers announced a strategic investment from Development Partners International (DPI), a premier investment firm focused on Africa, and Verod Capital (Verod), one of the continent’s leading investment management firms.

DPI and Verod are investing in PAT to fuel its continued growth and will work with management to build on the company’s recent achievements and reaffirm its position as Nigeria’s largest homegrown digital infrastructure provider.

With this appointment, Jyoti Desai and Vivek Gupta joins Adefolarin Ogunsanya, Daniel Adeoye, Marc Stoneham and Azeez Amida on the board of Pan African Towers.