REACTIVE LEADERSHIP
Leadership entails identifying a problem and proffering anticipatory solution before it becomes an emergency. Call it proactive leadership and you won’t be wrong. Whether this could be said of leadership at all levels of government in Nigeria, from local to state and federal is a subject of national debate. What exactly is the value of the life of an average Nigerian whose death is announced casually like every other news? What is a Nigerian worth? Concerned public office holders allow a pothole on a highway to manifest to a gully until it results in accidents that claim lives before they act. Why? Why do we allow red alerts of insecurity to snowball to imminent emergencies and loss of lives before we start calling for dialogue? Why? Most times, what started like a mere hazard develops to imminent risk and attendant loss of lives before receiving attention. Why? Why do we prefer to render glowing tributes to lives cut short at their prime owing to avoidable causes when a measure of proactive response could preserve such lives? Why? Most times the victims are breadwinners for their family members.