The ongoing series in some publications titled "In Search Of Leadership" by the irrepressible Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai are, without doubt, an engaging read to which every conscious citizen ought to pay grave attention. Reason is that somehow the unnerving question of leadership in the open-ended debate - albeit unofficial - on how to salvage a country clearly perched on the edge of fragmentation, is steadily assuming a larger-than-life dimension.
At no time under this wangled democracy has the dialectics on leadership been more gripping, more encompassing, more tormenting and more insistent than this distressing moment. To that extent, El-Rufai is perfectly right to have weighed in with his perspectives on an issue that endlessly agitates the minds of genuine patriots who desire not just the survival of Nigeria, but also the deployment of her amazing potentials for progress in a more meaningful fashion.
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