Professor of political science at Bayero University, Attahiru Jega, said Nigeria’s development has been truncated because it has the misfortune of having leaders who are greedy for power and money.
Jega, who was chairman of INEC between 2010 and 2015, said this in Lagos at the weekend during the first memorial workshop in honour of the first Civilian Governor of Lagos, Alhaji Lateef Jakande.
The workshop, which featured Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra and Pastor Poju Oyemade, as co-chairmen, was organised by Federal Social Democrats, (FSD).
It has the theme, “Selfless Leadership and Good Governance: Jakande as an exemplar.”
Jega as the keynote speaker, delivered his contribution via Zoom.
He said the the lack of visionary leaders has deferred the development of Nigeria.
He noted that Nigeria’s present crop of leaders are not selfless in offering services to the country and also lack vision in leading their people.
“One of the major challenges of good democratic governance in Nigeria is that of having selfless, patriotic, inclusive and effective leadership in order to drive Nigeria national affairs and the development of the political economy towards the goal of democratic governance. Getting things right would require selfless and visionary leadership”, he stated.
