Successful countries are run like corporate organisations. They have structured work plans, budgets, efficiency, profits and loss, scalability, expansion, market discoveries, short, medium and long term goals, innovations and continuous research and development. That’s how the OECD countries and the global North run.
Countries must be very deliberate and intentional. The Peoples Republic of China have been doing this for over 4000yrs, and they have turned it into an art form.
For this to happen, the government must be manned at all levels by highly educated, experienced and dynamic individuals. These crop of technocrats develop the SOPs (standard operating procedures) for manning and managing every minute aspect of the country to guarantee successful outcomes. This is the norm in developed countries.
Instructively, the heads of governments in such countries must have the following minimum qualifications: Highly educated and mostly to post graduate levels. Must have headed large organisations in the private or public sector hitherto and deemed to have been successful. Must be a successful technocrat with years of experience in the public space
However in Nigeria, the constitution first sabotages the country by ensuring that illiterates and nonentities could make it into leadership. How could any serious country place the criterion for leadership as Primary School Leaving Certificate? How?
Then rather than the political parties to challenge that nonsensical criterion, they in turn seek the seemingly most popular despicable illiterate among them, and make them flag bearers for executive and legislative positions.
Then individuals that had never headed corporate organisations nor anything of responsibility, in turn become governors, legislators and presidents.
These illiterates get into power and rule according to their basic instincts; they’re not equipped for leadership so they quickly descended into rulership. They see appointments as political patronage and install other misfits in positions across all facets of government.
They do not understand governance, minimum requirements, standard procedures, efficiency, competition, profit & loss, corporate governance or anything. They “slash & burn” whatever they see on the way, run through budgets like spirits, grab what they could, then make hifalutin noises to the populace.
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Yet, the citizens expect some good to come out of a most vicious system that programs the failure of illiterate leadership into a country? Can’t we see the difference between Alex Otti, Peter Obi, Makinde, and the other governors?
Otti and Obi were CEOs of international banks while Makinde was CEO of Maikon Engineering (they build gas processing plants) and the other governors? Can’t we open our eyes to see the total confusion and lack of direction of Mr. Tinubu as president?
He never ran a large business organization neither was he technocrat. Did we not witness the disastrous outing of that illiterate terrorist called Buhari? He never headed any organization as a technocrat nor lead a corporate entity.
Neither of them made it past primary school in the real sense. Are the results not sufficiently telling? What in tarnation is the matter with Nigerians? What stops us from observing the countries “making it” and comparing models and outcomes?
We are not intentional about building a country, we are rather silly in adopting a system that works, and we really are laughable to believe that a system that installs illiterates in leadership would bring about development! And some persons make it about inter-ethnic or train regional differences?
