Founder, School of Politics, Policy and Governance (SPPG) Dr Oby Ezekwesili, says there is a strategic need to raise leaders that will turn around the fortunes of Africa through good governance.
Ezekwesili, a former vice president, World Bank's Africa Region and former minister of education, said this at a briefing to close the second edition of the African conference of SPPG in Abuja yesterday.
The conference was themed "Good Governance in Africa: Leaders and Citizens Driving Systemic Change".
She explained the need for substantial systemic changes in governance to facilitate meaningful development across Africa.
"Our continent is failing majority of our people. Not the continent actually, but there is leadership failing majority of our people. We want to change that story and reality so that factually we begin to populate the public space with minds that have character, that have competence and capacity.
"Minds that will govern for the public good, and the African citizen will be at par if not ahead of the most advanced societies in our world, " she said.
