A former Minister of Information and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Jerry Gana, has insisted Nigeria needs quality leadership, saying that the country yet to experience effective leadership.
He called on Christian elders and Nigerians to shop for men and women of integrity, honour and wisdom to take the nation to the Promised Land in 2027.
Gana made the remarks in his welcome address as chairman of the occasion organized by Christian Elders Forum of Northern States (NOSCEF) in Kaduna.
He added “In the party that I belong to, we are going to do our very best to ensure that only excellent candidates are given the opportunity to emerge as leaders in the various states and in the nation. Right from when I was in MAMSER, whatever you are supposed to do, you do it excellently, and therefore we are going to insist that all our candidates for governorship, for Senate, House of Representatives, and the presidency must be men and women of character, integrity, honour and wisdom. Nigeria deserves the best.
“Leaders don’t just emerge, they are deliberately raised and therefore I will like to emphasise what I said earlier during the seminar, that most of us elders in the churches, and other areas of responsibilities, must take time to look at those who are endowed with the quality and characteristics of being good leaders, train them and raise them so that they can give good leadership.
“Nowhere in the world that leaders just emerged, they were trained deliberately. Therefore, I want to say to all the churches and elders and then beyond that, those in various political parties, we must pay serious attention to raising high quality leaders, nothing happens without leadership.
“If you want Nigeria to move forward, we must make sure that we raise leaders that are going to give qualitative leadership at the local government, state and national levels. It doesn’t just happen, we have to be deliberate and that is what I emphasised to the elders today. I wish them well.”
