The General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, William Kumuyi, has urged Nigerian leaders to be symbols of good leadership, committed to building a better country.

Kumuyi gave the advise on Tuesday night at the grand finale of a six-day Global Conference organized in Port Harcourt, Rivers State by the Change Makers International, CMI.

Speaking on the topic, ‘Instructive pictures of change in leadership’, he said that the portrait of a leader is like that of a shepherd in the bible.

Kumuyi said, “The picture of a shepherd is the leader, the shepherd who has sheep, his sheep could be the people he is leading and goes all out for the rest of the people as seen in Jeremiah 23:4.

“The shepherd needs to have the life of Christ in him. A shepherd can be a local shepherd or an international shepherd. The shepherd feeds the people and makes sure that the people they lead fear no more.

“This means that the shepherd will not be a timid person. He must have courage and confidence as seen in Jeremiah 3:15.”

The clergyman further said that the leader must feed the people with knowledge, adding that the leader should be the preservative of the symbolic salt, meaning that leaders are people who should be regarded as the salt, Matthew 5:13.

According to him, a leader is not useful to the people when he locks himself up from the people, he loses his salty taste.

On his part, the Director of Public Affairs and Protocol, Rivers State Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Aliyu Danliti, gave a talk on the qualities of a good leader.

Danliti said that it would be important that leaders pursue good governance.

He outlined the features of a good leader as respectfulness, honesty, and integrity, adding that “while leadership styles may differ, all leaders must be respectful.

“This character must include truthfulness and trustworthiness, and a leader must know the repercussions of what he wants to do before doing it.

“The leader goes without bouncers, without security officers, knowing that God is the greatest protector and would protect him.”