Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto has observed that Nigeria is drifting and needed better leaders that could save it from the impending doom as well as get the leadership selection process right.
He made this observation Saturday, at a reception and public lecture held at Sultan Palace in honour of members of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, who were appointed into his administration.
Responding to a paper titled: ‘The Responsibility of a State and Stable Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects,’ delivered at the event by the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, Tambuwal said: “it is a collective responsibility to reconstruct the processes and bring better people on board.”
Agreeing with the recommendations of the paper, the governor however lamented that Prof. Jega did not mention the recent experience of EndSARS protests that nearly shut down the country, asking: ”What can we do if these young men and women who protested possibily aspire to fill certain positions? ”
He, therefore, admonished leaders in the country on the selection of their successors. ”In all they are going to do, they must factor them in and see how best they can bring them on board and work with them and find accomodation for them.”
”In Nigeria we must build institutions. As it were, we have seen what happened to the electoral process, judiciary and what is still happening even at the National Assembly,” he lamented.
”If you have strong leadership and there are no institutions, the moment that strong leadership gets weak, everything in the centre can no longer hold, so it is important to pay attention to building more institutions in Nigeria, he suggested.”
The governor further suggested that ways must be devised to see how best to bring about enabling environment for a common ground to be established where contending tendencies can be brought together.
