The Kind Of Leaders Nigeria Need -Hamzat

ABDULRAZAQ HAMZAT

Nigeria, especially at the national level, needs leaders with great imagination, not those that will be thinking about basic and mundane stuff.

We do not need leaders who will rely on the World Bank, IMF, Development Partners or Donor Agencies to lead our processes.

We need real leaders, that can identify our real strength, source value from it, create processes around those values and pursue this strength in the most dynamic manner, irrespective of the cost or collateral damage.

Basic issues should be left for the state and local government.

Leaders at the national level should not be those with mundane mindsets.

National leaders, both at the legislative and executive arm of government must be thinkers, visionary, builders and those with deep imagination, far beyond what anyone, anywhere in the world has ever come about.

We don’t want consumer leaders, who will seek to consume foreign education, foreign value, health, food, clothes, tech and even politics.

We need producers, manufacturers and innovative leaders.

You will agree with me that the mindset of a consumer is clearly different from that of a consumer.

Consumer mindset can never lead the country out of doom, it would push us further down.

Only the producing mindset can set us free, though won’t come without its challenges.

It is those kinds of thinking that will stand the country out from the pack, not outsourcing our thinking and development concept to some so-called development partners, who are only here to milk and influence your processes, through a greek gift, called donor aid.

We need leaders with high political inspiration.

Leaders that could situate Nigeria within the global political and leadership sphere, which automatically triggers the need to build necessary local capacity in terms of human resources, value system, economic power, political influence etc.

I am therefore urging everyone who can identify such kinds of people to please recommend them for leadership.

We need them now more than ever before.

Abdulrazaq Hamzat wrote this piece from Ilorin, Kwara State, north-central Nigeria