Nanono: A technocrat in Buhari’s Next Level

‘Everybody wants to be a leader, but only few want to work for the welfare of all. Besides, real leaders must be ready to give in their best and all for the welfare of those they step in to govern’. These were the words of our late global icon Nelson Mandela, whom in the midst of opportunities decided to sacrifice his welfare for the benefit of every South African.

Again, Dave Anderson, a great scholar in the leadership field, feels the real reward for leadership is the opportunity to make more sacrifices, an irrefutable sacrifice for the benefit of all. However, human beings in the global perspective, Africa and Nigeria in particular, are made up of a propensity for selfishness by exaggerating their own needs and importance ahead the general welfare of the general masses.

Meanwhile, true leaders build systems, sanitise the systems and put in place institutions that allow the processes that are very transparent and accountable in order to ensure better lives for all. A very good example of such a leader in our present day Africa, Nigeria in particular, is President Muhammadu Buhari who in every ramifications put his own welfare behind to build a formidable Nigeria that can stand the test of time for the benefit of both the present and the generation yet unborn.

Nevertheless, Buhari is not alone in this crop of leaders in our Nigeria of today. We also have a nationally and an internationally recognised technocrat, Sabo Nanono, a well refined God made leader with a nationalistic spirit and integrity. Nanono is a technocrat well prepared to join hands with Mr President and other Nigerians to accomplish landmark achievements in the Next Level agenda of the second tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Nanono is in all standard a thorough bred human resource manager and an erudite scholar equipped with high intellectual capacity and administrative skills to give life to any dead economy or society both at home and abroad. One of the good qualities of Alhaji Sabo Nanono is his sacrificial lifestyle. Nanono can go all out without minding his own benefit to ensure that others feel good. Even before now, many who are not directly from his geopolitical zone have been immensely benefiting from his kind gestures in the areas of scholarship, medical care, human capacity enhancement, etc. Nanono’s major goal as I dig deep through those whom God has enormously used him to transform their lives positively is for him to use whatever task that may be bestowed on him by President Buhari to build and sustain a vibrant Nigeria that can benefit everyone devoid of ethnicity, tribe, religion, political affiliations and parental background.

That is why when his name was mentioned on the July 22, 2019, on the floor of the Nigerian Senate as one among the men of integrity and patriotism chosen by President Buhari to form his cabinet, that singular act of Mr. President received unimaginable applause across Nigeria. It is because, many who are very much familiar with the leadership style of Nanono, both in the private and public sectors where he held sway for some decades at the echelon, see him as a fantastic technocrat with nationalist spirit that shall without any iota of doubt join hands in the next level agenda of Mr. President to in all standard take Nigeria to the next level of human, economical and infrastructural development.

Many political observers also believe Sabo Nanono is a grassroots mobiliser who without doubt, will greatly use his position as an honourable minister to positively affect the lives of people in his home state of Kano as well as the entire country. However, some analysts feel it is too early to give so much accolade and hope for Nanono in view of the fact that the cabinet is yet to be inaugurated and portfolios allocated to minister.

Nevertheless, whatever the case may be, as a well groomed journalist that has been following the past and present humongous exploits of Sabo Nanono across the length and breadth of Nigeria and beyond, I have no doubt on my mind about his capability. I also strongly believe the Kano born technocrat will indeed bring his highly profitable and superlative managerial and intellectual sagacity to manifestation as the cabinet is set to be inaugurated tomorrow by Mr President.

Odeh is an Abuja based media practitioner, human/community development expert and public affairs analyst.

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