The Nigerian Leadership Question - Wolves Clothed In Wool!

[Robot]

"A leader takes people where they
want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't ...Read the full article.

[gwobezentashi]

Nice one PCD.

However I will highlight where it admonishes us all for indulging in the bribery orgy.

Mallam, if we don't bribe the messanger, he won't let us pass. If you don't bribe the clerk, your file won't move.....and you won't eat.....if you don't bribe madam, you can't see Lamide in peace....and the beat goes on.

Wetin man for do? If the leader leads through bribery and the people follow through bribery, how do we buck the trend?

Leaders are accountable firstly through the ballot box and it is through this mechanism that the people exercise power to hold leaders and representatives accountable. This is why, it is a fundamental pillar of representative democracy. Until our leaders are in office because the people truly chose them, so that elections become a purifying process, we will always end up with square pegs in round holes. Until Iwuoids are never allowed anywhere near an INEC office, we will not be near starting to see the virtues of good leadership.

The executive will only work to fulfil its pledges and the legislature will meet its remit when both are elected by the people. The checks and balances we so badly yearn will metamorphorsise. The state of democracy in the states is even worse and at the local government level, non existent. The state legislatures are beholden to an emperor governor who dispenses favour as if in its gift. The local government democracy is thuggery gone beserk.

Why did Obasanjo do what he did without any hindrance from the NASS? Why were governors able to get away with pocketing their state budgets without hindrance? Because the people did not choose their representatives! Because the people did not choose Obj in 2003!

Yes, we are all individual models of leadership and democracy is by negotiation between the leader and the led. In our micro environments, there is plenty of democracy and negotiation. No house can survive with OBJoid leadership style. Look at his home! A dysfunctional wreck!

Aluta!

Gwobezentashi

[emj]

By sheer grace we saw, we experienced and though with plenty scars we managed the likes of IBB, we went the whole nine yards with the goggled man and his five leprous fingers, then we are contending with the realities that was the Obasanjo years.

All through these men and all those that surround them, Nigeria has survived their political manoeuvres, just like we survived secession; we came through several military putsches. There are Nigerians that would rather that would split, while others have lamented that what we have as leadership is a function of what we deserve.

Hmmmmm....Prince Charles(lol)yes true talk. We've survived because we are resilent, and oppressed to submission..aka..not our WILL

While some of us say that our lack of cohesion is largely based on an institutional failure in providing leadership because of structural and institutional failure and this is further worsened by personal failure in leadership.

Yep, yep

Essentially we have not been able to produce leadership that has vision, we have not had men or women, with all the camouflage of Obasanjo, he could not leave men or women that had the commitment to pursue what he believed him, this is not far fetching because very many of us can say that he pursued state looting, he had cronies not disciples.
An argument may also be that the failure of leadership stems from the following symphony, personal failure, political inexperience, intellectual incapacity and a synergy between our socio-political, institutional and psychological environment. So whether it is military, cilimcy, democracy, what we have succeeded in building is largely an ethnic cum tribal and quasi religious driven conundrum.

Hmmm....a combination of Intellectual capacity, Political experience and Personal Dicipline is what is needed to move a nation like Nigeria forward(maybe, but not necessarily all). All the dagbada dagbada politics is a no no. Recycling of Visionless Men and Women was also the undoing of most of the people who had attempted to Lead us. We never did have real Leaders of men, but had Rulers/Looters...VQAS

Interestingly until this point we have had the misfortune of a largely unintelligent class of leaders and leadership, before now excepting Shagari and Ekeueme, we have been saddled with leadership that lacked formal intellectual training, and most were on the job learners and claimed they knew all and had answers. When indeed they were as naïve as they come, and bad enough is the fact that the structures upon which they operated were deficient of character, integrity and purpose.

Hmmm........Ogbuefi, gba brake small...u don't have to be an intellectual to Lead or be a good leader...dat is sorta overated u know..juess MOO(my own opinion).
Even when the Structures upon which they operated where deficient of character, etc etc ati bee bee lo.....a good leader that has focus and a real mission can still salvage the situation by turning a bad and near good situation around...by doing the right thing.

Having said all da above...what have i, or rather we as individuals done to see that the statusquo changes, and not business as usual.....am i or rather, are we discipline enough to do the right thing when we get to a position to do so...or give up and join the business as usual people...inspite of being intellectually sound...are we able to outsmart the so called jekuru jeodes in place?(da locust and cankerworms)