ZELENSKY: A LESSON IN HUMILITY TO EGOISTIC NIGERIAN LEADERS
August 9, 2021 | News
Recent declaration by Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, discouraging citizens from hanging his portraits about in office walls is a remarkable lesson in genuine humility Nigerian leaders need to learn from.
-By Zik Gbemre
ZELENSKY: A LESSON IN HUMILITY TO EGOISTIC NIGERIAN LEADERS
Unlike arrogant, ego drunk Nigerian leaders, Ukrainian President says citizens should desist from placing his pics on walls.
Public services must be discharged with utmost humility and sincerity.
Recent declaration by Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, discouraging citizens from hanging his portraits about in office walls is a remarkable lesson in genuine humility Nigerian leaders need to learn from.
A modest Zelensky told his countrymen, "I really don't want my pictures in your offices, for the President is not an icon or an idol. Hang your children's photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision."
Nigerian leaders are so obsessed with petty self glorification that one of the most absurd idiocy among the nation's presidents, governors, ministers, commissioners, council chairmen, chief executive officers(CEOs) of government owned companies, heads of law enforcement agencies and what have you, is to have their photo portraits displayed in every public office.
In public and private offices, billboards, political gathering, social functions, just about every opportunity to tell the world they are in charge, it is as if it is a punishable crime not to have the president, state governor or local government chairman photos in your office.
And such idiocy has become a culture because it is being practiced among equally gullible followers who in cheer eyeservice or pretence readily comply, even if they don't like the leadership style of the said leader.
These ego drunk officeholders carry the obsession to force recognition on the citizens beyond having their pictures on offices. When in power, they turn demigods and play chief philanthropist.
They execute shoddy projects of inflated contracts sums, chunk of it diverted into their private vault. They don't end there. With impunity, they make a huge drama of commissioning of those fake projects that never last the test of time.
At this hyped commissioning ceremony, office holders induce the majority gullible public to entertain and sing their praises, call them the kindest godsent leaders as if the commonwealth used in doing public works comes from the leaders private pockets.
Our leaders put up air of receptiveness when they are begging for office. They try to act to be nice and humble during campaigns and election. The moment they force their way into power, they manifest their egoistic.
Nigerian leaders must accept that public service is a call to diligent stewardship that must be discharged with utmost humility.
Zik Gbemre.
August 9, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
-By Zik Gbemre
ZELENSKY: A LESSON IN HUMILITY TO EGOISTIC NIGERIAN LEADERS
Unlike arrogant, ego drunk Nigerian leaders, Ukrainian President says citizens should desist from placing his pics on walls.
Public services must be discharged with utmost humility and sincerity.
Recent declaration by Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, discouraging citizens from hanging his portraits about in office walls is a remarkable lesson in genuine humility Nigerian leaders need to learn from.
A modest Zelensky told his countrymen, "I really don't want my pictures in your offices, for the President is not an icon or an idol. Hang your children's photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision."
Nigerian leaders are so obsessed with petty self glorification that one of the most absurd idiocy among the nation's presidents, governors, ministers, commissioners, council chairmen, chief executive officers(CEOs) of government owned companies, heads of law enforcement agencies and what have you, is to have their photo portraits displayed in every public office.
In public and private offices, billboards, political gathering, social functions, just about every opportunity to tell the world they are in charge, it is as if it is a punishable crime not to have the president, state governor or local government chairman photos in your office.
And such idiocy has become a culture because it is being practiced among equally gullible followers who in cheer eyeservice or pretence readily comply, even if they don't like the leadership style of the said leader.
These ego drunk officeholders carry the obsession to force recognition on the citizens beyond having their pictures on offices. When in power, they turn demigods and play chief philanthropist.
They execute shoddy projects of inflated contracts sums, chunk of it diverted into their private vault. They don't end there. With impunity, they make a huge drama of commissioning of those fake projects that never last the test of time.
At this hyped commissioning ceremony, office holders induce the majority gullible public to entertain and sing their praises, call them the kindest godsent leaders as if the commonwealth used in doing public works comes from the leaders private pockets.
Our leaders put up air of receptiveness when they are begging for office. They try to act to be nice and humble during campaigns and election. The moment they force their way into power, they manifest their egoistic.
Nigerian leaders must accept that public service is a call to diligent stewardship that must be discharged with utmost humility.
Zik Gbemre.
August 9, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes