कानो!!!

“ No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all by himself, or get all the credit for doing it”
Andrew Carnegie [1835-1919].
“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders. In combat, officers eat last”
Robert towns end [1920].
“We have to stop personalizing politics and be ready to accept genuine critism”
Aminu bello masari.
The above quotations are a food for thought for our dear readers.
The cardinal objective of a leader is the happiness, peace and progress of the followers. It is therefore pertinent for leaders to consider the teeming masses first, as their primary target, in order to change their lives for good. Anything contrary to this remains counterproductive and anti people.
As long as the world lasts, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs will last forever.
Empty vessels they say makes the most noise. Achievement! Achievement! Achievement! Is all we ever hear. Ideally, a good leader should not blow his own trumpet all by himself.
Each succeeding generation of leaders should patiently await the testimony of the people they ruled over, it is from the joint testimonies of the teeming g masses that a historical account could be adequately documented and laid to rest in the annals’ of history whether good or bad. At first when votes were sought, it was low tone voices and a sense of pity for losing a first attempt; with high expectations, a majority of congress voted although some electoral misappropriation was employed. Still sober and timid, executive support was geared towards retrieving the unions most valued possession, from then, it has always been busy days, pride and unlimited arrogance. A crooked ruler just like a good liar will surely have an excuse for every misdeed when confronted, so, at first they might seem spotless.
The best attribute of a good leader is that which is inclined towards accepting genuine critsm and not making excuses and trying change for the better. An exemplary rule within a student union like ours will definitely be passed on to the outside world, back at home; if we are asked to give testimony of the leadership habits of a supposed senatorial aspirant who was a one time leader within our cycles back in school, guess what our general response will be? how much support do you think we will give? Do you and I think that we will forget so easily the busy spree? No!, I do not think we will.
Thus, I say this, even though the leader maybe as wise as a sage, he must humble himself and yield to the inclined public pressures and demands, only then will the intelligent and the wise offer to him their good counsel and the braveness to exert themselves in full submit to his course.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande is a freelance writer, a neo pan africanist. You can reach him at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com .