Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Sam Adeyemi, a renowned strategic leadership consultant, has pinpointed lack of sacrifice among Nigerian leaders as a critical factor contributing to the nation’s sluggish development.
Adeyemi passionately underscored the urgent necessity for leaders to formulate a comprehensive, long-term development plan that garners support from the populace. He emphasized the impracticality of expecting significant change in Nigeria within a mere four or eight years.
The respected leadership consultant stressed that a desire for development pervades the Nigerian population, necessitating concerted efforts from both citizens and leaders to transform the country into a thriving nation akin to those sought after by Nigerian migrants.
Adeyemi further urged the nation to engage in a national dialogue regarding its future, beginning with revisiting the 2014 National Conference report and implementing some of its recommendations.
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He said, “What drives people in leadership now is money, rather than making sacrifices for the country, leaders look for how to make money and thereby stunt the nation’s development.
“Nigerians are not foolish, the survival instinct is the strongest, the people you are asking to collaborate, and the only collaboration that makes sense to them is how they make more money. All the contracts going out of the MDAs, Ministries, Departments and Agencies, even the oversight functions for the National Assembly, it is money driving it.
“That is why vision is very important as a leader. You have to sell that idea, transfer that idea to people’s hearts about where we are going and how we will get there and it’s that where we are going to that will give motivation to people to sacrifice.
“The people in leadership need to make sacrifices now but I promise you most people in leadership now are not thinking sacrifice, they are thinking survival.”