The President of Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan has blamed the Predicament Nigerian are passing through now as a result of poor leadership.
He said failure of the giant of Africa to address leadership problems with deliberate policies will continue to worsen its problems.
He said that before Nigeria will grow, there is a need for the country to adopt a deliberate policy to sustain and create leadership at all levels of governance, as there is a dearth of quality leadership in the country.
Senate President Ahmad Lawan
Lawan stated this at the inauguration of the fourth cohort of the Kashim Ibrahim Fellowship in Kaduna.
He said
“In all cases we never stated anything about leadership in Nigeria for us to reach the level of development that we need in our country, every part, segment and strata of the society must have a developed, deliberately focused leadership, so that what we do at the local level compliments what we do at the state level and from there, terminating at the apex – at the Federal level.
“No matter how hard we try to develop our country at the federal level, if our states are not able to provide the kind of leadership and complementary development, then we cannot achieve the kind of goals and targets that we feel we must achieve as a country,”
“It is not about your state; wherever there is good development in this country it spirals into others. When Boko Haram started in the North-East, some people felt that was a Borno state matter but today Boko Haram is beyond Nigeria and no one in Nigeria is safe.
“It is with leadership, if we have leadership in any part of the country, it wraps up positively on other part of the country.
“When we have these array of leaders Nigeria has a hope that we will have leaders who are not only willing to give leadership because they happened to be there but because they have been prepared to give leadership,”.
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