FIC Report (Abia State) – Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, has made a case for rightful leadership selection process in Nigeria in order to have an egalitarian society.
Governor Otti was speaking while receiving in audience a delegation of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Citizenship and Leadership. He stressed the importance of leadership in the society, saying that if leadership is not gotten right every other thing would fail.
“If you don’t get leadership right, then, every other thing you do will fail”.
“Leadership is key and very critical, of course followerhip is important because it is the followerhip that selects leadership”.
“So, if you make a mistake in your leadership selection process, you are going to live with it for as long as the tenure of that administration or the person that you selected subsist”, Gov. Otti stated.
The Governor said that everything his administration is doing in Abia is about leadership and citizenship and would rely on the team to educate and get the young people involved.
The State Chief Executive who described the role being played by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Citizenship and Leadership as very critical, assured her that Abia State Government would work with her team.
“For us in Abia, we will work fully with you and give you every support in any way we can to ensure that you are successful in this assignment.”
“I assure you that we will work with you because your agenda fits into our agenda”, Gov. Otti noted.
Governor Otti used the opportunity to commiserate with President Bola Tinubu on the unfortunate demise of the Chief of Army Staff which was announced earlier. He said that the death is a personal loss to him as the deceased was his friend.
Earlier, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Citizenship and Leadership, Miss Rensola Abiola said that they were in Abia to intimate the Governor on a programme tagged “Next Generation Project” which is targeted at the next generation of young people in Nigeria.
She said that they partnered with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) to design the project, saying that the programme is aimed at enlightening young people on some issues including substance abuse as well help them develop their capabilities.
“We can all agree that when it comes to Nigeria, the issue of good leadership and good citizenship are two things that need to be balanced”.
“We are focused on youth leadership development, youth reorientation, youth engagement and we are partnering with the National Orientation Agency.”
“We understand that Nigerian youths are very dynamic, versatile, gifted, skilled and enterprising but at the same time our people need to be engaged and talked to”.
“So a lot of young people are into these vices without understanding the implications and how it might affect them.”
“We want to talk to them and we want to enlighten them so that they can also take the message further to their peers. So, essentially this is what the project is about, to enlighten our young people”, Abiola stated.
The Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Nwaobilor Ananaba, his Basic and Secondary Education counterpart, Elder Goodluck Ubochi, Special Advisers to the Governor on Youth, Education and Monitoring and Evaluation among others were present at the event.
Abiakam Gloria Ifeyinwa,
HOC, FIC, Umuahia, Abia State.
