Jonathan Will Be A Hero When Chibok Girls Return – Ezekwesili

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Jonathan Will Be A Hero When Chibok Girls Return – Ezekwesili

In the euphoria of a successful conduct of the 2015 general election and the praises coming the way of President Goodluck Jonathan for the conduct of a free and fair election, former education minister, Dr Oby Ezekwesili has a different opinion concerning the heroic act of the sitting president.

According to Ezekwesili, who is also one of the advocates for the rescue of the 219 Chibok school girls abducted for one year now, the fact that non of the girls have been rescued, makes her no fan of Jonathan.

The leader of the #BringBackOurGirls group, in a twitter page, refuses to call President Goodluck Jonathan a hero, noting that “When a review of President Jonathan’s administration is done, we will realise how much damage sycophancy did to governance. Example? Chibok Girls.

“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 encourage teams to withhold accurate ‘bad’ news (problems) from the leader while serving up ‘good news’.”
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“When a leader makes hero worshipping costly to those who engage in it, he/she deprives the ‘sellers’ market to set the ‘Mediocrity Benchmark.’”

“Acritical success factor in governance is for the leader to both in word and deed convey a culture that abhors sycophancy.
No hero worshipping.”

Meanwhile, the BBOG has urged the outgoing and incoming president of the country, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammed Buhari to work assiduously together to see that the abducted 219 Chibok girls return home before the hand over date of 29 May 2015.

Speaking during a press briefing, Ezekwesili expressed hope that during the transition period, efforts would be made to see to the return of the abducted girls to their families.