Former Lagos State Governor and a leader of the
Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday called on
African leaders to service-driven leadership.
Tinubu, who was on his way back from Accra where he bagged the Maiden African Servant Leadership Award at the Ghana Graduate School of Leadership and Governance, told correspondents at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos that Africa was backward because of bad leadership.
He said, “In the entire Africa, we have always theorerised leadership, instead of canvassing leadership that is defined for the people, that has care and compassion, ability to chart a new course which will be for the common man, the down-trodden and lift millions out of poverty.
“If you look at Brazil, we were on the same level; today, they have been able to uplift their people, the standard of living and the purchasing power which is currently improving their economy, the creative nature of their country and the resources available.
“Why should we continue to misuse these abundant resources that God has given us and the human resources that are available to us? We continue to export our goods to bring back these items as finished products from other countries. Where are those industries that will create jobs and develop skills and the capacity of human beings?
“We have a huge market, huge material resources; we are blessed with good weather and we are not devastated by natural disasters but by man-made disaster in leadership.”
Tinubu noted that the continent and Nigeria in particular should examine why public office holders rule rather than lead.
He said, “Every time we study leadership, we should flip the coin upward and start to look at the reasons for bad leadership. We have been advocating good leadership all along, what is the cause of bad leadership? If we know the cause, then we can fight it.”
By Okechukwu Nnodim Courtesy Of: Punch
Tinubu, who was on his way back from Accra where he bagged the Maiden African Servant Leadership Award at the Ghana Graduate School of Leadership and Governance, told correspondents at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos that Africa was backward because of bad leadership.
He said, “In the entire Africa, we have always theorerised leadership, instead of canvassing leadership that is defined for the people, that has care and compassion, ability to chart a new course which will be for the common man, the down-trodden and lift millions out of poverty.
“If you look at Brazil, we were on the same level; today, they have been able to uplift their people, the standard of living and the purchasing power which is currently improving their economy, the creative nature of their country and the resources available.
“Why should we continue to misuse these abundant resources that God has given us and the human resources that are available to us? We continue to export our goods to bring back these items as finished products from other countries. Where are those industries that will create jobs and develop skills and the capacity of human beings?
“We have a huge market, huge material resources; we are blessed with good weather and we are not devastated by natural disasters but by man-made disaster in leadership.”
Tinubu noted that the continent and Nigeria in particular should examine why public office holders rule rather than lead.
He said, “Every time we study leadership, we should flip the coin upward and start to look at the reasons for bad leadership. We have been advocating good leadership all along, what is the cause of bad leadership? If we know the cause, then we can fight it.”
By Okechukwu Nnodim Courtesy Of: Punch
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