Leadership is a responsibility that whoever is saddled with must take the burden and deliver the mandate. As a leader, making your subjects happy should be among your topmost priorities. In doing this, reverse must be the case for others. In life, the day someone is born is the day another is dead. In addition, there is a Hausa saying; “Kujerar mulki kamar kujerar aski ne” (the seat of power is like a barber’s seat, before you get on, someone else precedes you, and when you finish, you have to get off).
Within the 24 years of my age in this world, I have met with various trials of life. I have experienced happiness and the opposite, I have met and interacted with different people. My experience is, nobody can ever completely fulfill the needs of human beings. In this context, I refer to the daunting task leadership comes with. It is a very difficult task in its real sense. In my opinion, it is one of the biggest tests of life that you will face, if God gives you.
As I have said, in the few years I have struggled, I have never been successful in the struggle as that of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime. I would like to make it clear to the reader, when I say success in the struggle, I do not mean getting money only. No! I mean taking different life lessons, achieving success in a special purpose based on a struggle with different people, among others.
I think I have never publicly expressed my support for the Buhari government since he came to power, due to some reasons, but I expressed my displeasure on some of the mistakes of the government, especially on us poor people.
I pray and wish good for President Buhari, and I pray again for God to guide our new President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and his deputy, Kashim Shettima (GCON) along with all other incoming elected leaders.
Abdullahi Rufa’i Adamu,
Bauchi, Bauchi state, Nigeria
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