LEADERSHIP FAILURE IN AFRICA

LEADERSHIP FAILURE IN AFRICA

Leadership failure may be one of the greatest challenges in most African Countries, especially here in Nigeria, but it saddens my soul to still see followers who celebrate the same misfits rulers who are the architect of our misfortune. We give them chieftaincy titles. We make them pastors, Deacons and Imams in our worship centers. We eulogize their stupidity and failures as blind leaders, we applaud them when ever they come around, giving them ground braking, red carpet ceremonies like the triumphant entry of the savior. It's obvious that at this junction, there is really nothing we can do to fix the ugly leadership styles we operate here in Africa. But there is a ray of hope with the followers. We can still salvage ourselves from this mental slavery. We can still disassociate ourselves from corrupt leaders and begin to look inward, in search for men and women with impeccable character. We cannot keep on electing the blind leaders who lack insight and  foresight, who lack the requisite character to lead us into the promise land. We cannot keep on celebrating corrupt politicians among us and expect not to be consumed by the hell of poverty, hardship and hunger they baptise us with daily. In other word, we cannot keep on 'committing sin and expect the grace of God to abound'. What this pattern of behavior shows is that we are not only a conglomerate of educated illiterates, but we are also a compendium of first class hypocrites. We claim to be fighting corruption on the outside and also celebrating corruption on the inside. It's high time we stop electing business men into political offices whose main agenda is to make excess profit out of their investment. Until people with good heart and humanitarians are elected into power in Africa, the continent may still remain the poorest in decades to come!

James Patrick

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