By Owei Lakemfa
One of the first things I learnt about leadership is the William
Shakespeare quotation that: “Some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” That again
played out in Lome, Togo on July 31, when President Muhammadu
Buhari had the chairmanship of the Economic Community of West
African States (ECOWAS) ‘imposed’ on him.
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| *President Buhari |
The
Presidency said Buhari had gone innocently to the ECOWAS Summit
prepared to vote for Cape Verde, Sierra Leone or Ghana as ECOWAS
Chair when during the campaigns and without warning, the region’s Heads of
State asked the candidates to step down only to: “impose the leadership of the
organization (on Buhari)against all protestations on the Nigerian leader.”If we
accept this tale of the Nigerian Presidency, what happened at the ECOWAS
Summit was the hand of a miracle-working God; a divine intervention.
