Bad leadership, bane of development in Nigeria – UniAbuja VC

The Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’Allah has attributed Nigeria’s problems to lack of good leadership. Speaking at the maiden edition of University of Abuja students’ leadership training and lecture series organised by the students affairs division, the university don said good leadership is a major issue in the country. He said: […]

The Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’Allah has attributed Nigeria’s problems to lack of good leadership.

Speaking at the maiden edition of University of Abuja students’ leadership training and lecture series organised by the students affairs division, the university don said good leadership is a major issue in the country.

He said: “I am one of those who always feel that, if we have good leaders, we will have good followers. Because sometimes followers look at the leaders, they want to see what they do so that they can respond.

“Some other people feel that it is the followers that create leaders. And that if the followers are bad, the leaders are certain to be bad, but I do not agree with that and that is just me.”

Speaking further, he said the university put together the programme, “because we feel that our students, who are leaders even at this level of their leadership, must have to understand what issues are and where they must position their leadership strategies.”

He commended the dean of students affairs division of the university for always being progressive in bringing on board new ideas to enable the university chart a new way.

The former special adviser on students and youth to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Jude Imagwe, while speaking at the event, said: “We elect people that become rulers and don’t want to become leaders.

“They don’t want to mentor anybody. So, if you attach yourself to them, you become a potential pest to them and this is not how a society will grow.

“A society grows when fathers and leaders like the VC give people the opportunity to explore their potentials.”

He charged the students to be upright in character, adding that their training is not only about learning skills as good character is as important as skills.