*Prof Ben Nwabueze |
Good leadership
The qualities and credentials needed for good leadership can readily be
identified. The primal credential is good education, such as would enable the
leadership to combine “ideas and power, intellectualism and politics.”
Leadership is a critical part of Nigeria ’s problem of governance
because the educational qualification prescribed for our political leaders by
section 131(d), as amended by the National Assembly in 2010, and section 318(1)
of the Constitution does not equip them to be able to combine “ideas and power,
intellectualism and politics.”
In these days of widespread “expo”,
certificate faking and general degeneration in the standards of education in
our schools and colleges, primary six school leaving certificate prescribed by
the Constitution for those seeking elective political office is really next
door to illiteracy. A semi literate President or Governor is what the
prescription tantamount to.