Even in its twilight, President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration
remains impenetrable to the simple logic that democracy is leavened by the
disparateness of opinions. It is in epochs of heightened divergence of
opinions that sometimes spawn crises and tend to unspool the state that the
genius of a great leader is given stellar expression.
The man or woman who comes into leadership
fully prepared for such near-fatal periods know how to parlay them into
opportunities for national development. Thus, the best leaders are not brewed in epochs when the people luxuriate in
ease but when they are confronted with life-threatening crises.
*President Buhari |
Was the genius of Winston Churchill not
unfurled, and thus he became a touchstone of good leadership, because he had
Adolf Hitler to prevent from adding Britain to his definitive list of
conquered territories? Did Franklin D. Roosevelt not etch his name in the
memory of Americans because he had the Great Depression to contend with on
behalf of his people?