03 March, 2010

Yaradua 101: How Not To Be a President.


President Umaru Yaradua has been described by different people as a very gentle, unassuming, down-to-earth man with a very large heart.
However, He is still in a race against time not to go down in history as the worst President, the Federal Republic of Nigeria has ever had.
A President is supposed to have a sound body and presence of mind. S/He is someone who should be able to make split-second decisions in the best interest of his wards.
Oftentimes, prospective candidates jostling for the Presidency of a Club, Society or Country have chosen prospective Vice-Presidents based on derivable bloc of votes they can get from people perceived to be different. Prospective Vice-Presidents are often docile and are supposed to be easily manipulated.
Presidents most times do not trust their Vice-Presidents and oftentimes fear they are going to be overshadowed if they give their Vice-Presidents a free hand to operate.
Below are some tips on how not to be a President.
1. Yaradua is an adult. Nobody made up his mind to run with Goodluck Jonathan on the same ticket. If He didn’t think Goodluck was capable to step into the shoes of the President at anytime, He shouldn’t have run on the same ticket with him.
Lesson 1: Be a man of yourself. Don’t be misled into taking a decision that you cannot defend or stand up for.
2. Yaradua could have shopped for a VP he could trust with the Presidency if the need arises. Jonathan was not the only southerner that He could have paired with according to the arrangement of the PDP.
Lesson 2: Trust your VP/Deputy wholeheartedly.
3. Yaradua should never have promised what He couldn’t deliver on. Yaradua promised Nigerians ‘rule of law’. His actions/inactions have pushed the country into a constitutional crisis.
As an apostle of the supremacy of the law, albeit the constitution, He failed woefully.
Lesson 3: You don’t preach something and do something else or act unconcerned when what you stand for is being rubbished by your aides.
4. As the president, the buck stops at Yaradua’s table. No flip flops. Indecisiveness is one of the hallmarks of the Yaradua administration.
Lesson 4: As a leader, the buck stops at your table. You can delegate authority to your aides but you take responsibility for whatever they do.
5. When Yaradua’s sickness became more apparent, he could have relinquished power to his deputy, long before his condition deteriorated to the abysmal level where he wasn’t in control of himself again. A little more faith and respect for his deputy would have forced his overbearing aides to respect Goodluck as well.
Lesson 5: Know when to quit when the ovation is loudest. Yaradua’s success handling the Niger-Delta Amnesty package was already endearing him to Nigerians again.

6. Politics has elements of show Business. A President in a democratic dispensation must always be visible, for in him, the state is embodied. There should be information flow about the President at all times. There has to be a real interface with the people. Yaradua was virtually inaccessible to People during his spell as a functional President and totally inaccessible when He became incapacitated.
Lesson 6: AS a President, never be inaccessible to people who voted you into power.

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