By Patrick Obahiagbon
Much has been said about political leadership in states of the federation and in the Nigerian nation-state in the contexts of good and bad leaderships. The essential prisms through which to appreciate leadership could be philosophical or ideological, spiritual or temporal, economic or political, social or cultural. Whichever it is, the important thing is that one of the marks of leadership in all its variegated nuances is mentoring. The leaders galvanise the led or the followers and provide the critical force in the exploration and voyage of administration for the good of the collectives.A leadership that cannot galvanise followership will not only be deprived of the benefit of loyalty which is a quid pro quo element between leadership and followership, but will also miss its place in history and its connection in posterity. That is the reason leaders at different intersections, especially in the political sphere in Nigeria, are wont to show more than scant interest in those who succeed them. A body of arguments exists to support this thesis. One which enjoys cosmopolitan resonance is the idea of continuity of programmes, projects and policies.
The situation supra is the fons et origo of the outlandish macabre dance that has maniacally engrossed opposition homo sapiens in the country.This is the testy and tricky moment that the federal government and all APC governors must keep their eyes on the ball and this is exactly where Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki has become an exempli gratia of good governance and thus not only quickly writing his name in gold,but also defining his place in the pantheon of fame.
Obaseki is building on the solid infrastructural development foundations laid by his predecessor, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, in a deliberate bid to reinforce the essential validation that the Oshiomhole-Obaseki government in Edo is a continuum. This is the point I made earlier about mentoring. The present administration has not only embraced continuity as a directive principle of state policy, it has also imbibed the audacious spirit of Oshiomhole to embark on ambitious projects, one of which was the construction and reconstruction of over 500 kilometres of roads across the state in the first year of the administration.
Importantly, the scope, shape, contents and texture of Obaseki’s development narrative in Edo state are grandiosely overwhelming. The trend presently is that one sleeps and wakes up to see one development initiative or the other taking place in the state. This is now a common feature that has earned the Obaseki administration the sobriquet of “wake and see” development. Indeed, the philosophical underpinning of the present luminous epoch of development in Edo state was the forging of the Edo State Investment Summit Alaghodaro 2017 with the apt theme: “Envisioning the Future.”
In fact, a government that is forward-looking and committed to rapid transformation of the state must envision the future and chart pragmatic trajectories to get there. In the administration’s commitment to ensure the crystallization of its goals and objectives of development, the focus on institutional reforms is in apple-pie order. The key to such reforms and development are institutions. It is in this context that the administration must be commended for embarking on processes that have made the civil service reform more efficient and productive to ensure smooth service delivery.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/obaseki-and-his-wake-and-see-development-narrative-in-edo/

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Ha, Patrick Obiagbon? We miss you! Especially, your grammar.

I would have been glad if he had written this propaganda of praise with flowery words of magniloquent, grandiloquent, bombastic wordage.

GrammarNazi1,if dem born you well,come correct Patrick



Patrick na Osho boy nah,we know say e go eulogise his fellow boy,
Na new grammar I come learn,we wey no go school nah

Edo people oya conglomerate,let's decipher if you are in tandem with the "wake and see" assertion by the "Englishman"?