2023: Nigeria Lags Behind Due To Leadership Deficit

By Akinwale Kasali

As Nigerians go to the polls in 2023, the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, CIPM, is advocating for sincere leaders who would take the nation to the promised land.

The President and Chairman of the Governing Council of the CIPM, Olusegun Mojeed, at the sidelines of the body’s 54th Conference and Exhibition in Port Harcourt, Rivers State said that over the years, the nation has suffered from  leadership deficit.

Speaking at the Conference with the theme, ‘Leading People, Growing Nations’, Mojeed said as human resources managers, the institute builds people that would make the Nation grow, stressing that Leading people is very key, especially people that will lead the Nation.

“People that will lead the nation must first and foremost be led, such people must also be willing to be led.

“If people are not willing to surrender themselves to tutelage, because if people are not willing to obey simple rules and regulations, leading also will be difficult, because we cannot keep talking about leadership without followership.

“When people subject themselves to grooming and being led, such people are now empowered to grow the nation.

“We have had leadership deficits and it did not start in 2015, it started long ago. We need people who will be sincere in developing this nation, that’s why at CIPM we want to add our own quota to that bid.

“Leadership deficit has plunged the nation to its present state and this didn’t start in 2015, but years back. We need to get it right and become a force to reckon with among the comity of nations, but firstly, we elect good leaders that have the interest of the country at heart and are sincere”, Mojeed concluded.