Leadership is Nigeria’s problem – Dogara

 

Dogara

 

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has identified leadership as a major challenge confronting the country.

The Speaker said the nation’s leaders were not trained in the art and science of governance by the educational system established by the colonial government.

Dogara, who spoke in Lagos on Sunday night while receiving the Zik Leadership award for Public Service, however believed that with patriotic leadership, Nigeria would overcome its current challenges.

He said: “What has been the problem with Nigeria is lack of leadership. If we have credible leadership that speaks to the challenges we face as a nation, there is no way we won’t make progress despite our challenges.

“There are so many nations that are as diverse as Nigeria and used their diversity positively. But why is it that they are making progress and we are not? If our founding fathers had gone back on their resolve to fight for us, we wouldn’t have had the nation that we call Nigeria today.

“Our leadership must be such that leads us to always overcome our fears and not yield to them. What will be at the centre of that leadership is justice because justice is needed in building a civil society. We must understand the workings of justice which is necessary in democracy. And then we have equality.

“If we establish both principles, there is no way Nigeria will not have progress. I don’t believe that the variety within Nigeria is a mistake, just as Nigeria is not a mistake.”