Watching the tsetse fly infected delegates to the ongoing National Conference, you cannot but laugh them to scorn! What a seriocomic gathering of appointed gerontocrats, some whom have outlived their usefulness in the higher scheme of things like engineering a national rebirth! Some have a checkered thought process that they hardly articulate the aspirations of their people who did not elect them anyway. They snore away our commonwealth in a sitting orgies of public ownerlessness and national extravaganza which will eventually come to nothing as the resultant instrument will swell the piles of previous jamborees collected in the sacred cabinets of Aso Rock! Sooner had they converged than their voices started sounding staccato, reminding me of an emergency choir, quickly assembled for a competition, its rendition notwithstanding. It will not continue to be their Nigeria all the time; it is our Nigeria. The hallmark of great leadership the world over revolves around succession plan, to entrust the mantle to the one who will creditably continue from where you stop, driving your mission to a higher pedestal. Remember, the essence of a man begetting a son is for him to fight and win the battles he was incapacitated to pull through. But when such a son is not empowered with the technicalities and opportunities to learn the rudiments of leadership, he is already a failure! The pride of every father is for the son to do better than him with every resources at his disposal. We dont need fathers who will, at the slightest provocation tell his children: Thank God you have even tasted much education to the university level, after all, my own father did not send me to school. I worked my way through where I am today. Such fathers forget there is no self-made man as man is a social being and therefore, cannot live independently in isolation! Somebody must have helped you somehow, somewhere along the line no matter how existentialist you claim to be, you still need the younger generation to fill up the generational gap! My father would always say, having lost so many opportunities in life, he would not want us, his children to suffer the same fate. And his investment in our education and future accounts for the proud heritage we have in our paternity. This is the legacy leaders should bequeath to the next generation of leaders. It is not about today but tomorrow and better still, the future! Chetakwa nIgbo si: Oba nuru mmiri, ozere e umu azu. Kanyi na-eke aki ma adu na-eghe!!!
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:40:51 +0000
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