Even Good Leaders Should Know When to QUIT.
Your Excellency Sir, (Katsina State Governor), Rt. Aminu Bello Masari; Holding on means hollowing out the institutions on which the future must be built.
Like many African leaders, Yoweri Museveni preached democracy even as he was seizing power through the barrel of a gun. In his stirring inaugural speech of January 1986, three days after his National Resistance Movement stormed Kampala, Uganda’s new leader spoke eloquently about the cycle of coup and counter-coup despoiling Africa’s political landscape. “We have had one group getting rid of another one, only for it to turn out to be worse than the group it displaced,” he said. “The first point in our programme is the restoration of democracy.”
I sighted the above example so that i can remind his Excellency, Katsina State Governor and all his cabinet of how they preached democracy during their tour of campaign. What we are seeing now is not what exactly we have been expecting and what we have voted for, Rt. Aminu Bello Masari, you have indeed changed from the walking path we had once saw you walking on.
These is quite a feat for someone who once said that the problem with Katsina was leaders “who want to overstay in power”. Yes, i agreed with you at that time, looking at how Ex-Governor, Be. Ibrahim Shehu Shema was trying to be on the senatorial seat, but later quiet the idea, i thought that he was just trying to escape from being in the chase of poverty. But do you know what? I have started to develope a new Thinking.
To be fair to Bar. Shema, his tenure has not been all bad. In his first decade, he presided over a period of political stability after the late then Governor Ummaru Musa Yar'adua. Growth was brisk. Infrastructure was repaired. Above all Education and Health sectors all are brought back to live, including Agriculture, Security and Poverty Eradication. And Shema did better than most of his peers — some of whom were shamefully neglectful — in tackling the Aids epidemic head on.
Yet the problem with successful leaders is that “they start to believe their own hype”. While villains and kleptocrats cling on because they fear reprisal, better leaders stay in power because they genuinely believe no one else can do the job. Without their firm hand, they imagine, the state will slip back into penury or chaos. But holding on means hollowing out the institutions on which the future must be built. That is what has happened in Katsina State.
Your Excellency, giving your respect for ancestors means that do not strive to make your ecologies bear more than possible. Man is not the centre of the African world. Nature is. Humility is a prime African virtue, as is respect for the way things have always been done, because this keeps nature stable. Home grown dictators have done much more damage than their former colonial masters. Human nature trumps idealism, especially as the bloom comes off the rose. I'm willing to wager that if we checked their personal bank accounts, we'd see vast wealth stolen from the people.
At the end, I am calling on all my fellow bloggers and Columnist to keep calm their thinking, let’s write on important matters that will be of benefit to our fellow state citizens, we need not to strike hard on the government in order to get a verse audience to applaud on our faces. Let us create a reasonable campaign for or against any policy thought to be not relevant to our people, the State can be more Socially and Medially Stable if we work as a team.
I am still calling on the Katsina Governor, if you can’t lead as we all thought you can, then be reminded that Even Good Leaders Should Know When to QUIT.
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From the Editor's Desk.
On the Date: 29-09-2016
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