A Moral Solution to the Leadership Problem in Nigeria
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2024-12
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Abuja Journal of Administration & Management
Abstract
Within the agora of human endeavour, be it in the home, corporate, religious and national setting,
leadership is the pivot. This paper sets to examine 'A moral solution to the leadership problem in
Nigeria'. It has been established by great minds that the greatest problem of human kind is
leadership. The same leadership problem has been the undoing of the Nigerian nation since
independence. Leadership in Nigeria is bereft of leadership qualities, a bastardisation of revered
tradition, convention and culture. Therefore, in this piece it looks at the leadership in Nigeria and
the moral questions affixed to its matrix. The paper adopted descriptive and qualitative methods by
exploring secondary data collected from documentations through published and unpublished books
and journal articles and were content analysed in relation to the scope of the paper. The findings
reveal that the style of leadership in Nigeria is appalling and troubling because of the main reasons
of assuming leadership position is selfish interests and self enrichment which has notoriously led to
the consistent failure of democracy and economic retardation. Hence, the need for leaders to
cultivate moral character, piety, human-heartedness, self discipline, listening ear and selfless service
to humanity that would eventually approximate to national development.