Let us eschew hate. Leaders cannot or should not hate people, theirs and others. It is an abomination to find a drop of hate in the heart of one called by God to lead. And, leaders (all leaders) must necessarily follow the global standard leadership way of behaving, and of acting, and of speaking!
By Michael BUSH
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The weakest and most useless big man in this age is one who, in spite of and despite occupying top position, dwells too much on bottom matters. Their trademark approach is both puerile and pugnacious. They always do anti-people things partly because they are desperate to please man or self. They talk too much, and worse, they do far too little.
Sssh, please be calming down. We only just started. There is so much to say to and about them. They better pray they are not guilty of what is coming because otherwise, their conscience is going to thrash them silly.
Even if they cannot, they ought to pray for life plus. Alas, the shame that is coming shall seize them like a flood; like flash flood. They shall suffer in silence because they shall realise sharing their misfortune is double jeopardy as their current friends shall overnight transmogrify into enemy broadcasters. Let us break the whole thing down, at the next juncture.
It is crass weakness and sheer uselessness for a big man to issue threats. Threatening someone is a sign of weakness that is too below a big man. It is even a deeper and troubling weakness for the big man to threaten an innocent person in hopes of exciting or impressing another human being. Hello, Governors Hyacinth Iormem Alia (Benue) and Monday Okpebholo (Edo).
Such horrible ungovernorship comedown should not be heard of. and even if, not in the 21st century when man -after having conquered the earth, the moon, the sun and everything else- should conquer self. Why on earth should 21st century state governors sound like that? Is it our long-discarded constitution of the colonial era that empowers them in the 21st century to stop a law-abiding Nigerian from assessing any part of his fatherland? Or, is it because Mr Peter Obi is Igbo, the one tribe that Nigeria thinks it can shamelessly hold down forever?
Or, are both chief execs insinuating that had tables turned in 2023, this is the exact same dishonour they would have served our current president? Apologies for that coy hypothetical rhetorical poser but someone just must tell our leaders that the people see through every of their self-serving misdemeanours. Politics ought to be played with class, with honour, with respect, with restraint and with tomorrow in mind. Enough of all this empty fullness that our leaders display to our global chagrin.
Intimidation strategy, as with all injustice, is counterproductive especially in politics. It can generate massive sympathy votes. Political foot soldiers or sycophants should stop their overzealousness. Leadership is clearly too big for such small mindedness.
Leaders who are big ought to be strong and useful, never dabbling in unbecoming mannerisms. Leaders who are big ought to show tact in word and action, never reducing everything to, let alone playing, lousy politics. The implication here is that a so-called big leader who fishes in small ponds or who engages in juvenile missteps is weak and therefore useless to leadership. Such a one is a disservice, a minus, an anathema to the very serious business of guarding and guiding humanity.
The 21st century leader who is arrogant, boastful, deceitful, petit, selfish is a leader who does not belong to now. Theirs is leadership-miss-road. Theirs is whose place the Bible says shall very soon be empty. Their and future generations shall ensure that posterity is never kind to them or their memory.
Yes, it is that serious. The 21st century leader should neither tell nor listen to lies. They should neither perform nor encourage blackmail. Otherwise, their place is in the Stone Age.
It is Neanderthal for leaders to treat their people badly but turn around to pretend that everyone and everything is fine. In fact, it is criminal for leaders to pretend. God never pretends. And, leaders represent God.
Leaders owe it to God and to man to act like, instead of playing, God! 21st century leaders should never act like Satan. They are gods who are God’s. By the way, this is not only about leaders thrown up by politics; this is also about all of us across all strata of leadership; this is also also about you and me.
Let us eschew hate. Leaders cannot or should not hate people, theirs and others. It is an abomination to find a drop of hate in the heart of one called by God to lead. And, leaders (all leaders) must necessarily follow the global standard leadership way of behaving, and of acting, and of speaking!
Imagine an army general: consistently angry, constantly shouting; issuing threats to his troop. Imagine a medic: normally anxious, frequently ranting; raining warnings of death to his patients. Imagine a priest: permanently bitter, perpetually grumbling; pouring out ultimata to his congregation. Imagine the greatest of them all, a teacher: regularly cynical, steadily lamenting; spitting out words that dampen the morale of his students.
The aforementioned examples of those four bounden leaders and indispensable service providers do not exist and ought not to. Where they do, everyone should understand that they have not been called to be what they claim they are. No army general, no physician, no priest and no teacher can evince other than the Jesus love prototype. They must at all times, to the people under them as well as to those who encounter them, be exemplarily fair, exemplarily humble, exemplarily merciful, exemplarily patient, and above all, exemplarily understanding.
However, and this is a very important big however, even the worst leader can rewrite their story. They can change direction. The choice is theirs, they have the power to singlehanded alter how they end up. Today though may be their last chance to become what God made them: a strong, useful big man for this age and time and people.
Learn and start to lead people with love that is both firm and alluring. As leader, learn and start to speak truth that heals and to ensure unity that binds. Learn and start to treat people the way you want to be treated, knowing that -except you die in that office- you are going to garbage out exactly what you garbaged in. Life is simple, dear leader: stop complexifying it for yourself and your children and your children’s children.
The 21st century is in dire need of big men who are strong and good. Big men who want to make both the people and the world big. Big men who are not cunningly seeking applause from man. Big men who are deservingly and truly big, before God and therefore before man!
God bless Nigeria!
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