Rotimi Amaechi has said the only way the poor leadership those in authority continue to provide Nigeria is for the common man to put their fate in their hands.
Amaechi made this charge on Thursday at the 2023 TheNiche Annual Lecture, themed: “Why We Stride and Slip: Leadership, Nationalism and Nigerian Condition.”
Speaking at the event held in Lagos, the former Rivers governor opined that it’s in the hands of the masses to stem the tide of poor public leadership afflicting the country.
In his suggestion which smacks of revolution, the immediate past minister of transportation said, “How many are the leaders? Maximum 15,000. If the one hundred and something million storm Lagos, storm Abuja, it will stop. How do you see a governor who has never worked before at all, and he is the richest man in his state, and his state is very rich and everybody is hailing him that he is tough man. What did you do?”
The former Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker added that the country is destitute of leaders who are nationalists but has a glut of ethnic chauvinists, saying, “The only person near that point of Nationalism with all respect is ex-president, Olusegun Obasanjo. The rest are ethnic leaders. Truly, remarkable national leadership is the ability of a leader to galvanise the totality of a nation around the common national banner with a vision and a sense of mission.
“The truly remarkable national leader is the one that is able to rise above limitations to take the nation and its people to that place where they long for but have never been before. It is a place of national greatness, pride, achievements and shared goals, aspirations and prosperity.”
