The clamour for the restructuring of Nigeria's political system which in the recent past was a household demand, has gradually taken the back stage to pave way for a consensus public opinion that the surest way out of the nation's quagmire of national insecurity, was the emergence of divinely-endowed selfless leaders whose main pre-occupation would be cantered on a total welfare package for the citizens!

Political office holders since 1999 till date, were not oblivious to the demand of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of all organs Nigeria, Chapter II Section 13, 14 (1) (2) (a) (b) (c), (3) (4), which clearly spell out the responsibility of government to the citizens among which are the following: that sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government derives ALL ITS POWERS AND AUTHORITY; SECURITY AND WELFARE of the people shall be the PRIMARY PURPOSE of government etc. With this arrangement, the PEOPLE should be the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), who hire and fire!

But majority of those opportunists (especially in the National Assembly ), who invaded the political terrain as desperate merchants since 1999, were determined to profit at all cost having identified all the loop holes in the military-crafted document which favoured mercenary transactions with so much impunity, had cleverly manipulated the system to cover up their tracks!

At the present time in the history of this nation, 469 Legislators and their cronies regularly collected N150 BILLION naira as salaries/emoluments, minus other perks of office, working allowances, and the controversial Constituency Projects (usually converted to cash), Allowances, from the annual federal budgets contrary to Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), constitutional provisions; Chapter V, Sections 70 and 84 (1) (2) (3) (4), and imprudently referred to those illicit largesse as "mere pittance" of the total budget percentage!

Those were bad leadership traits that pervaded the turf for too long before the advent of the Change APC Government which from 2015 had frontally confronted all of the bequeathed fraudulent practices because those fingered to have committed economic/financial crimes by the EFCC had fought back viciously with the alleged looted funds to prove their "innocence"!

Government as a gift of the Holy Spirit, (I Corinthians.12, is synonymous with the word, leadership, in that it is the management or control of a system or people, and that was why it was possible for those who performed creditably and diligently in office, past or present, to be so endowed with the exemplary gift to work seamlessly without paying much attention to the lucre of office!

To lead means, to assume headship, show ability to guide others (presumably), in a right direction. Leadership position is not limited to the aged realm of society! Prophet Samuel was barely a teenager when God placed him as leader over Israel (1Sam 1, 2)! Emmanuel Macron, current President of France was only 39 years in, when he was elected to that exalted position by his people to serve!

NIGERIA'S BRITISH LEADERS!
Nigeria's colonial masters were national leaders in their own right! At least, they successfully, piloted the conglomerate of the entire mass of uncivilised 250 tribes, inundated with diverse opinions, languages, cultural beliefs, traditions, world views etc, for close to a century years at independence and handed over to compatriots selected/elected from among the indigenes!
Or, was the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern British protectorates, by Sir Frederick Lord Lugard, in 1914, a ploy to further consolidate their very prosperous economic empire that guaranteed regular supplies of raw materials to their emerging industries back home because history did not confirm whether natives from both sides of the divide were ever consulted!
It should be recalled that British explorers/missionaries first made incursions/inroads into Nigeria with merchandise to trade and simultaneously preached religion in a manner that would endear them to the indigenes but along the line surreptitiously imposed themselves as masters with the aid of greedy chiefdoms and of superior fire power of sophisticated arms and ammunition which gave them the mantle of leadership with less resistance!

Before the emergence of the first set of indigenous politicians who took over at independence from 1960, the scenario plotted by the British masters foisted the existence of the three major tribes of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, to the detriment of the other 247, who were completely interwoven and completely knitted to the prominent tribes in trade, business, social engagements/interactions, traditional rites, religious/inter/intra marriages, chiefdom/community matters etc.
Nonetheless the Founding Fathers played along and pretended all was well, with the intention to first grab independence with both hands on a platter of gold and latter settle the score of who took what or who shared what, when the dust would have settled! WERE THEY NOT GOOD LEADERS? Of course they were also good leaders who did creditable nation-building assignments in the three regional groups.

Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was quoted to have said that he was happy that Nigeria would attain independence in 1960, and would not be bothered if either himself, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, or the Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello, became the first Prime Minister; rather, he would be satisfied that the country from the shackles of colonial rule! Well said but how well did they manage the freedom?
Did the first coupist not accuse them of tribalism, nepotism, corruption, aggrandizement, looting of the national treasury, etc, - which were not qualities of good leadership?
IF THE BRITISH COLONIAL MASTERS PRETENDED THAT NIGERIA WAS POPULATED BY THREE MAJOR TRIBES, WERE THE INDEGENES UNAWARE OF HOW MANY CHIDREN BORN TO THEIR FATHERLAND?

Some excerpts of the Lyrics of Nigeria's Anthem at independence are as follows: .........’’though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand................. that TRUTH and justice reign.................TO HAND UNTO OUR CHILDREN A BANNER WITHOUT STAIN’’. Etc
WHAT WAS SWEPT UNDER THE TABLE IN 1960 REARED ITS UGLY HEAD WITHIN SIX YEARS THROUGH THE NIGERIAN ARMY WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN APOLITICAL!
Imagine if force was not introduced during the teething stage of the nation's political, economic and social development, the stake holders would have, through "trial and error", surmounted the early hurdles of nation-building and democratic principles and build up egalitarian societies! THAT ANOMALY PRECIPITATED BAD LEADERSHIP IN GOVERNANCE UP TO 2015 BUT THERE'S FRESH HOPE FOR RESTITUTION AND RESTORATION!

ROADMAP TO FUTURE SELFLESS LEADERSHIP BEGINS WITH NIGERIAN YOUTHS!
The Change Administration has now positioned Nigerian Youths like never before, to take over the mantle of leadership when PMB would have successfully completed his second term in the year 2023!
THE SIGNING OF THE "NOT-TOO-YOUNG-TO-RULE AND THE N30,000 NAIRA NATIONAL WAGE BILLS"" BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI INTO LAW, WAS DELIBERATE, STRATEGIC, WELL INTENTIONED AND MOTIVATED TO PREPARE THEM FOR GOOD LEADERSHIP POSITIONS FROM THEN ON!
Now, Nigerian youths need to change the attitude of pursuing short-cuts to life successes as exhibited by the present generation of politicians who predate on the common patrimony with reckless abandon and impunity to brazenly exhibit such outrageous larger-than-life- illicit wealth that could mislead the very WEAK among the emerging/patriotic "not-too-young-to-rule", to follow their very bad leadership examples!

They also needed to stop identifying with or supporting the condemnable deeds of looters of the treasury who have continued to deploy such illicit funds to destabilize the polity through the sponsorship of crimes and criminalities of terrorism, kidnappings, murders, arson, assassinations, etc,
They should jointly condemn those social media rats and youths whose reasoning faculties have been damaged through drugs and who see nothing good in all the concerted efforts by the present administration to shore up the economy and put Nigeria in perspective among the comity of nations.
Nigerians Youths should interact by faith with God and request for wisdom, knowledge and understanding in spiritual and world affairs in order to be prepared for future leader positions through diligence in hard work and labour.

There is dignity in labour NOT in laziness and stealing. There is work for every serious and determined youth in Agriculture, small scale medium business enterprises, for starters. They must not despise the beginning of small things.
YES, we cannot change our topography as a nation, we cannot change our diversity of tribes and tongues, we cannot change our psyche as a people BUT, WE CAN CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE TO LIFE THROUGH THE FEAR OF GOD WHICH IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM! (PROVERBS. 9:10), WITH WHICH TO BUILD A UNITED, STRONG, ECONOMICALLY-VIABLE EGALITARIAN SOCIETY AND TOTALLY SHUN THEIR LOVE OF MONEY WHICH IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL! (1Tim 6:10). AMEN!

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon,. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066. G-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

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