Goodluck shouldn't be called a hero--madam Oby Ezekwesili

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Leader of the Bring Back Our Girls group and former minister of

education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili,
has said that President Goodluck Jonathan does not deserve the hero tittle for accepting defeat in the just concluded presidential poll.
DAILY POST reports Jonathan, before the INEC chairman could announce the final result of last
Saturday’s presidential election, had called General Buhari to congratulate him for winning the election.
Following his decision, many Nigerians have been praising the president for saving the entire nation
from disaster.
However, Ezekwesili says if only Nigerians knew the extent of damage President Jonathan has
done to Nigeria, they won’t hero worship him.
She took to her Twitter page on Thursday, to air her views on the recently held presidential
election.
She tweeted: “When a review of President Jonathan’s administration is done, we’ll realize how much damager sycophancy did to governance. Example? Chibok Girls,” she wrote.
“A leader must be without an inordinate desire to
be serenaded with ‘good news’ or their team will
never let them know the true state of affairs.
“An environment that rewards sycophancy encourages team to withhold accurate ‘bad’ news
(problems) from the leader while serving up ‘good
news’.
” When a leader makes hero worshiping costly to those who engage in it, he/she deprives the
‘sellers’ market to set the ‘Mediocrity Benchmark. “A critical success factor in governance is for the
leader to both in word and deed convey a culture
that abhors sycophancy. No hero worshiping.”

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