Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has lamented that Nigeria has been unlucky with lousy leaders for a long time. He said that in many parts of the country, the people were wondering how they ended up with such kinds of leaders.
Emir Sanusi stated this at the second Kano International Poetry Festival, KAPFEST, held in Kano on Saturday. He also maintained that the country would have been bankrupt if the federal government had not removed the fuel subsidy.
The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, stressed that good governance is key to salvaging the country from its current condition, which the country has not been lucky. “You rise and fall with the quality of your leadership, and Nigeria has had lousy leadership for a long time.
“You cannot give what you do not have until we begin to look at the people whom we choose to lead us. And that’s the truth. I mean, in most parts of this country, you look at people who are leading you and you say, oh God, is this really the person? How did we end up here? You see it every day on the newspapers.
“You see it in the news. You see what happens in the legislature. You see the kind of debates that we are having, the kind of arguments that we have, the kind of time we waste on totally unimportant issues, the pettiness,” he said.
He, however, challenged the youths to rise up and take over the country from the old people who have been managing it, saying that with will, the youths could easily replace all of them and take over.
