Statesmanship has nothing to do with your age nor does it mean that you have attained a certain age or belong to a certain profession. But who am I to pontificate?

In my humble view, the search for what statesmanship is, really, must start with the statesman template before we even begin to consider whether the idea of eldership in statesmanship is an aberration or not. One needs not attain a certain age or belong to a certain class before it behoves on them to begin to be apolitical.

Being a statesman starts with sound judgement and discernment in consideration of matters that concern the state – and by the ‘state’ we do not mean that you only have to have been a former head of a state or that you participated in running a government at state level, no.

When we say ‘sound judgement and discernment in the consideration of matters of state’, we mean that at a certain high level, you would have subdued your personal interests and put the overall interests far and above that personal and local interest of yours. So in essence a big businessman, a local chief, a young athlete, a college administrator, a pastor or an imam or a politician can be a statesman.

In the United state we can easily have the likes of

Bill Clinton,

George Bush

Ronald Regan

Billy Graham

etc as outstanding elder statemen who has cosistently work in and out of office for the growth of america

who are the elder statemen in Nigeria that the young generation can look up to and why please suggest names:

Do we anyone in nigeria that can be regarded as a stateman without any atom of corruption

GEJ...

ki02020:
Do we anyone in nigeria that can be regarded as a stateman without any atom of corruption

None!

ki02020:
Do we anyone in nigeria that can be regarded as a stateman without any atom of corruption

Is the old generation that bad? ....


where are the leaders to look up to

Olu Jacobs.

TS2:
Olu Jacobs.

what influnce and role has he model for the young generation

ammyluv2002:
None!

really you mean no one on the women side


what of queen Amina....


forget the recent furniture allowancw woman oh

honestly none! dont doubt me but we just have ssome figures that seem to represent statemen, but in the real sense there is none.

for me it will be

Tafawa Belewa..... for simplecity and nationality

Awolowo......... for his educational pation

Nnamdi Azikiwe........ for unity of nigeria

Enoch Adeboye....... for humility and showing goodly direction

Margaret Ekpo ............ foremost "women right" activist

Goodluck Jonathan.......his sacrifice to transformation agender




you can add your to the list

or agree or disagree

jascon1:
honestly none! dont doubt me but we just have ssome figures that seem to represent statemen, but in the real sense there is none.

a shake my head

for the young generation who will they look up to

A country without elder statesmen.

juman:
A country without elder statesmen.

patetic and heart aching

robosky02:



what influnce and role has he model for the young generation

Although I mentioned that as a joke, I will urge you to go and check your history. I should not be here teaching you about Olu Jacobs. He has however had a more positive influence on the country and for the country during his time in acting.

There is hardly any politician who has had the same amount of positive influence.

robosky02:


patetic and heart aching

Sad thing.

Those leaders are oloriburuku yeee bọbọ.

They have no interest of the country at heart.

Orubebe

Keneking:
Orubebe

am sure you are not traying to orubebe this trend