Author: Abioye Tosin Lawrence
I want to agree with the Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Settiima’s jibe during the last presidential primaries that, “Nice Men Don’t Make A Good Leader” A remark which did not go well with the followers of the immediate past Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s followers.
But, seems to be a very blunt statement and the reality that surrounds the polity in Nigeria and Africa in particular. Most people claiming to be nice are not responsible when it comes to giving necessary back up to their supporters in term of leadership that makes them to have trust in their capacity.
“When we say some leaders are bad because of their gimmicks, we don’t look at what keeps them ahead of those claiming to be nice. Imagine someone portrayed to be bad leader in a case where wildfire’s raging a particular place, where there’s flooding incident, when people needs shelter, when people crying for what to eat.
A nice leader who knows how to govern very well in his evasive way ignores responsibilities. The ones painted bad who understands how to scores political points swiftly responds with sympathy, abandons activities, registers his presence and donate to victims, provide for the needy?
These are the reasons nice people will always stays outside the corridor of power and watch until they learn how to be there for numbers of people claiming to be their supporters and people in general.
Nice men may be those wicked waiting for opportunity to align but could not make a good leader. Because they have not been given opportunity that x-rays their flawlessness?
People would think they’re the best. They lack control over majority because they don’t stand a position to dominate them due to mismanagement of people, they are not risk takers financially, economically and politically.
No matter what people are facing in the hands of those askance to be bad leaders, those they risked their life for will always remember their risks, they will never betray them the same way a dog will never betray his owner. Because, they always available when needed and gets reward in return.
“Many of those painted as bad leaders waste their resources, looking for what doesn’t concerns them, solving other people’s problems, while those who posits themselves “NICE” were busy looking for an acceptable blueprint and slim opportunity.”
With the African system, you can travel to the moon and come back with the best blueprint. But, if you don’t plant your followers, if you don’t care for them, if you are alien to the streets, then you lack power over majority to accomplish your mission.
“If people observe President Tinubu in the last general elections, he was talking authoritatively that: “IT WAS HIS TURN, “the majority of people questioning his audacious remark seemed not to near when it comes to having sympathy for numbers of people who are serious with the business.”
People will shout, but they have no churchmind, they don’t mean business. The business of election begins the day one leader you’re trying to unseat swears in, even if such a leader isn’t planning to run further. But, if you mean business, you must start immediately by ensuring that both his structure, the people in power, who’s who goes on vacation, you must lose sleeps, and you must make enough sacrifices.
People surfaces today from nowhere, forgetting that some have been planning a lifelong ambition. When it’s election period, Nice people who wants power always thinks it’s about vibrant manifesto, they believe the race is about sending message to people who have been hearing same message for long time.
They start looking for the attention of youth with various platforms that are toothless, they start consoling one another, finding faults, painting those ready for the race, they start doing the same thing they did that amount into failures, they will become nice to one another, they will use one another and dump one another to face another business.
Infact, they are part-time players trying to challenge the anacondas in the field before they gets swallowed by the wisdom, consistency, resilience of the disciplinarians or actors.
I want to agree with Mr. Vice President, Kashim Settiima, but not to downsize the former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, in the way the message was passed.
A nice leader may not always serious and selfish, because anyone who sees politics as a season where he need to reach out to vulnerable people, before he starts to building his followers is just another force trying to downscale the fulcrum of simple machines or Political gladiators.
Lots of reactions will trail both steps and statements made by those believed to be awful because they’ve numbered their soldiers. Majority of those reacting may not be serious, some neither belong to any recognized party, some doesn’t know the reason why the elect people into power, that’s why the system continues unabated, that’s why individual talent thrives beyond collective struggle, that’s why brilliant, nice people are protestants on Air, when they explode and after short period of time, they will go home and look defeated.