The immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, says Nigeria needs competent and assertive leaders and not necessarily strong leaders.

According to Jega, an incompetent leader who is strong will end up destroying institutions.

The former INEC boss said this at the 58th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Abuja on Monday.

He said, “What we require most are the competence and capacity of leaders to take decisions and be assertive in ensuring that those decisions are actually implemented. So, we have to be very careful in thinking that a strong leader can really help.

“Just like a weak leader can wreck an institution, a strong leader, who has just that power and courage, but lacks the capacity, ability and competence to lead, can also wreck strong institutions.

“Competence of leadership is a very important variable in bringing about the stable political transition, good governance and deepening of democracy.”

The former INEC boss, who superintended the 2011 and 2015 general elections, said politicians must stop treating elections as a do-or-die affair.

He recalled that a former President once said elections must be do-or-die, an incident he described as most unfortunate.

Jega also said there was a need for agencies of government to shun partisanship as this weakened institutions and eroded public confidence.



He added, “We must emphasise professionalism, impartiality and non-partisanship. This is because quite too often, you have good and strong institutions, but once partisanship is introduced and partiality become the norm, as many public institutions in this country, then those institutions would not be able to deliver effectively on their mandates.”

The former INEC chairman said there was a need for law enforcement agencies and the judiciary to be alive to their responsibilities, adding that the integrity of the electoral process must be preserved and protected.

Jega added “From my experience, I am convinced that electoral integrity is key to stable political transition and to ensuring that there is a framework for good governance and societal development. Electoral integrity is not just about the integrity of the election management body. It is also the integrity with which the key stakeholders engage with the electoral process.”

In his remarks, a former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, lamented that elections in Africa are always characterised by violence.

He said even the recently concluded NBA election was not without its own controversies.

“The genesis of Africa’s political problems is the action of sit-tight leaders who do all they can to amend the constitutions in order to perpetuate themselves forever. These leaders manipulate very vital democratic organs particularly the legislature and even judiciary to suppress any dissenting voice,” he added.

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We know you are a Buharist, but how so you express your competence in a lifeless and weak body? You cannot so anything to fault President Trumps assessment of the man you helped rig into power with your hypocritical integrity.

But morons prefer a lifeless Paedophilic Vegitable
than seeing Igbo prosper

He said, “What we require most are the competence and capacity of leaders to take decisions and be assertive in ensuring that those decisions are actually implemented. So, we have to be very careful in thinking that a strong leader can really help.

I hope Osibande and Lifeless Paedophile-in-Chief is seeing this. Not just making decisions or giving orders, or commissioning ghost projects, but making sure they are obeyed or implemented.

Just look at whom nigerians are expecting salvation from

kaorama:
Buharist

wee you kee kwayet?

Weakness is incompetence on its own.

No weak man is ever competent.

No competent man is ever weak.

To be competent, you at least have to be strong.



What Nigeria needs is strong, educated, non-tribalistic, intelligent, and irreligiously* inclined leaders.


Buhari lacks those qualities.

Donald95:
[s]But morons prefer a lifeless Paedophilic Vegitable[/s]

have you eaten? You need food. Your level of bile is not normal.

Caseless:
have you eaten? You need food. Your level of bile is not normal.

Look at the left of the pic below you will see a guy throwing something, look in between his legs, you will see a tiny something dangling, That's what you are

jega ogún go kill you

no be you dash us buhari

Animalistic man that's why you impose this lifeless man on us.
Jega you are a kill joy.

Meanwhile Buhari of course never falls into that defination is yours if anything is to go by.

Buhari - The most lifeless human being the world has ever seen!

Mr. Lifeless who double as Durlardeen or Baba Go-Slow is neither strong nor competent. He is a confirmed FAILURE.

Lol jega is right

You're right Sagay

After searching for months all over Nigeria, we all of a sudden found out that this competency we have been looking for can only be found in an ailing, lifeless 78+ old illiterate who dropped out of secondary school in JSS2

One thing is that APC knows deep within themselves that there's no way they can retain power in 2019 without fielding Buhari

And they are doing that at the detriment of drawing us backward as a nation

But since most Nigerians claim not to see any credible candidate in the opposition party

Let the suffering continues

Last last, another civil war happens

The only thing I'll ensure is that I don't break rules over here so as not to get deported in no time to that shithole of a place

This stupid man

I have always said it that competence and ability should be the first criteria for choosing our leaders.
lee Kuan yew transformed Singapore not necessarily with integrity but the right planning and his ability.
I don't know if buhari goes to his London doctors for their competence or for their integrity.

Caseless:
the most competent Nigerian for the job right now is Buhari.

But Donachukwu Trump(the president of the whole world and the most powerful man on earth) thinks otherwise.

Buhari is the most mentally and physically lifeless person i have ever seen or engaged in my whole life. He is too lifeless to be president of any country. - Donachukwu Trump 2018.


If Donald Trump has said NO to bubu!, who are you to say yes.


An aboki man's brain is 1 million light years behind and less developed to a white man's brain!

So please tell me again, do you know better than Donald Trump. . .?

Leaders that are intellectually sophisticated and not some lifeless dullards.

Not lifeless ones.

Sir who are you campaigning for in particular, I mean who do you recommend

Sorry Prof Jega, you are wrong on this one.
Nigeria needs a Strong AND Competent Leader.

Being competent alone is not enough, you must be strong enough to fight and go the distance wrestling power from the cabals and untouchable godfathers of this country where it's foundation was built on corruption.

Knowledge, assertiveness and selflessness must always supersede strength in every decision making. PMB exudes these traits already, we don't need a wrestler to rule us as Trump wants, but a wise one.

Ok

I've always suspected this guy to be partisan. One of the people who rigged Buhari in. Why e no go support am?

How can you be competent when you are lifeless?

pryme:
Sorry Prof Jega, you are wrong on this one.
Nigeria needs a Strong AND Competent Leader.

Being competent alone is not enough, you must be strong enough to fight and go the distance wrestling power from the cabals and untouchable godfathers of this country where it's foundation was built on corruption.

No govt in Nigeria has ever been fraudulently beset by cabalism than the current one and the president seems powerless and weak to do anything about the wrongs. From Abba Kyari to Babagana Kingibe, from Madman Daura to Babagana Monguno you have mentioned something powerful that even the president quakes in their presence.

Strength (as u call it) in leadership involves doing the right thing, taking the right decision irrespective of the consequences but in Buhari we have a ruler who delights only in harassing and intimidating the opposition and those with dissenting voices.
That isn't strength, it's a sign of insecurity.

May the soul of the Kano REC and her wife you riggers wasted in fire outbreak to silence him from exposing the evil plots of 2015 torment you all.

Gej hit himself on the leg allowing jega to stay when He suppose to go on terminal leave

Donald95:


Look at the left of the pic below you will see a guy throwing something, look in between his legs, you will see a tiny something dangling, That's what you are

Jesus,easy bro

kutchs:

No govt in Nigeria has ever been fraudulently beset by cabalism than the current one and the president seems powerless and weak to do anything about the wrongs. From Abba Kyari to Babagana Kingibe, from Madman Daura to Babagana Monguno you have mentioned something powerful that even the president quakes in their presence.

Strength (as u call it) in leadership involves doing the right thing, taking the right decision irrespective of the consequences but in Buhari we have a ruler who delights only in harassing and intimidating the opposition and those with dissenting voices.
That isn't strength, it's a sign of insecurity.

Am not a Buhari fan but this "cabalism" seem to be here even before Buhari. Buhari has failed in addressing this bane of are democracy.
The scariest part is the people looking to kick Buhari put are no better than him are far as cabals are concern.

Look at Atiku what is his mile stone achievement?

Look at Sariki what is his mile stone achievement?

But look at Musa Yar'Adua, you could see for yourself what he achieved before becoming president.
Power will only amplify the intentions and objectives of its holder.

Jonathan, Buhari, have both displayed what/who they were before they came to power.

Just look the front runners in the presidential race, I can't sleep with my eyes closed if any of them become the next president.