Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that the difficulties facing the country will persist unless individuals in positions of leadership do something to solve the situation of the country’s nearly 15 million out-of-school children.
Regardless of the type of leadership training supplied by leadership development centres, disregarding this segment of people, he added, will always cause a drag in society.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, speaking at the GOTNI Leadership Centre in Abuja on Thursday, also stated that the country’s leadership problem may be solved if all necessary steps are taken.
That leadership issue, according to the former President, has been the bane of African growth.
While addressing the problem of leadership training and development, he believes that parallel efforts should be taken to ensure that those who are supposed to be in school are in school.
“You see, anything somebody says about Africa, we embrace it,” he explained, “especially if they are sincerely concerned about what we need to do or what we are doing incorrectly.” When people tell me I’m doing well, I tell them no, because I am.
“Don’t tell me I’m fine. I’d like you to tell me what I need to do in order to improve my situation. That’s what I want to hear, not for you to come over and tell me everything is fine.
“The truth is that no one is born without some level of intrinsic leadership ability; it is only through development that this ability may be fully realised.” Some of it is late when we get at the GOTNI leadership centre.
“We must remember that much begins at home, in the classroom, in the Church and Mosque, and within the community itself. You won’t even get them to come here if we fail in all those areas.
“This is a small part of our lives.” What we do is the other facet. I’m concerned because, no matter what we do here, we’ll never be able to address the problem of 15 million children who should be in school but aren’t.
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“Even if all of us in school are GOTNI Leadership Center grads, there will still be a divide between those who should be in school and those who aren’t.” Nothing we can do will prevent a drag ad from appearing. That is something we must remember.
“When you ask an African country, particularly Nigeria, what their problem is, they will answer leadership,” I said. Deficit and deficit in leadership. In this GOTNI Leadership Centre, both can be taken care of.
“You can learn how to lead.” It is possible to develop leadership skills. You can learn anything that can be taught. Leadership may therefore be learned if it can be taught. As a result, people must be willing to teach and learn about leadership.”
“For the great work that he has been quietly doing without screaming and shouting about it,” he praised Linus Okorie, the proprietor of the GOTNI Leadership Institute. And he’s filling a critical gap in leadership development in this country.”
Linus Okorie, the Center’s Proprietor, stated that the center’s mission was to develop a crop of professional leaders for the country in all aspects of life by ensuring that they understood leadership competencies.
“We are already seeing stories of transformation and change going on in the organisations,” he said.
“All I ask is for a critical mass of people to participate in this trip so that we can develop leadership from high school to political levels.” In fact, now that we are in the election season, it is critical for everyone interested in running for political office at any level to come in and sit down and learn about leadership so that when they are placed in a leadership position, they will be prepared.
“They know what it takes to be a leader. They are visionaries, honourable men and women who can do anything. Transferring leaders and building values are on my agenda, and we need to invest in them.”
“We are not just teaching, but we are modelling leadership,” says Chief Sam Ohuabuwa, Chairman of the Board of the Centre.
“President Obasanjo is one of the best leaders we have today,” he remarked. Of course, we can still do better, which is why some of us are attempting to develop our leadership skills.
“What he did today validates this centre as a very capable and versatile leadership centre that ranks among the best in the world.” We have provided what some individuals indicated they would go to Dubai in the United States to look for.
“We’ve all agreed that we haven’t done a good job as a country in terms of leadership.” Our ability to lead is quite limited. We have lacked consistent, intelligent, imaginative, competent, and brave leadership integrity to move our country from a third-world, poverty-stricken state to a globally competitive nation like Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Germany.
“How come we can’t be just like them?” So, with the new dispensation, we want to make sure that we emerge at that global level because nothing is better for Nigeria than to be at the top.”
Africa, according to Jean Bakole, Regional Director of UNIDO, needs to foster leadership.
“Leadership” he defined as “the ability to effectively engage people and lead a country.”
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“We will not be able to achieve this unless we engage our young people and assist them in developing management skills as well as the best vision and strategy that we can put in place economically, politically, and socially to advance development.” African solutions are required to address African concerns.”
“That isn’t to say we can’t compare ourselves to other countries because we want to give our people the finest experience possible.” However, this will not be feasible unless we all work together to increase our skills and stay in the system that is always improving our abilities.”
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