‘Nigerian leaders must run economy as quasi business’

Nigerians have been urged to choose leaders who will see the running of the country as quasi-business going forward.

The need to rise above the pedestrian mode of choosing leaders based on sentiments was also identified as the only way out of the under development that has beset the most populous countries in sub-Saharan Africa for decades.

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, H. Pierson Associates Limited, Mrs. Eileen Saiyen, who made the call in Lagos, added that leadership in Nigeria must be based on competence.

She said, “Talking about competence, l mean a new world competence.   A leader has to be nominated based on the footprints of what he has done. Our economy, states are just too large to be used as experiments.  At all levels of leadership, we need a paradigm shift on how we see leadership”.

“They must be leaders who have a global view and global standard. That requires deliverables and transformation. l think we need to have a fundamental shift on how we define good leadership and we need to also act very quickly.”

Speaking on efforts of government to diversify the economy, Saiyen commended the policy trust of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

She called on the government to be committed to the execution of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, which she said was well articulated and focused.

Source: Punch Newspaper