Nigeria's leadership crisis is created by the leaders' insensitivity towards the yearnings and aspirations of the electorate, Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Waziri Tambuwal said in Abuja yesterday. He spoke at the 10th Trust Annual Dialogue with the theme 'Nation building: Challenges and realities' held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel.
The speaker, who was the special guest of honour at the event, said "since we are talking about the reality of nation building, we must agree that more often than not we leaders behave as if the people owed us rather than the other way round." He said "once we get power, we become selfish and arrogant and forget that we are servants of the people and not masters of the universe. This is the fundamental cause of our leadership crisis."
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