By Adamu Muhammad Dodo [email protected]
Whatever atom of good, bad and/or ugly committed, one will eventually get to account for it; will be commended and comforted or condemned and doomed by it, as learnt in the book of knowledge and wisdom.
Men of wisdom advise that while celebrating a shouldered responsibility, consideration should also be made on the time of expiry, the termination of tenure, either as elected, promoted or appointed.
Emma once asked, why is it that it is after a tenure that one shouldered with responsibility turns remorseful,) – could be pretended – seeking for forgiveness from those he directed the uncontrolled unconscious bias?
Emma would ask whether or not it’s actually the right time with the consideration that Pharaoh had an unhindered terror-heretic days, until when he met his waterloo at the Nile where he tried but denied a dying minute repentance; regret and apology.
Those shouldered with leadership responsibilities ought to be learning from the previous experiences as panacea to arrogance out of power-drunk for misgovernance and misadministration.
While an efficient and effective leader carries everybody along, he who fails to plan, to think strategically by planning to fail, deploys the uncontrolled unconscious bias, accommodates sycophancy, surrounded by the favoured unqualified but rich in betrayal of trust and backstabbing as cover to their weaknesses and as a measure of handling those they are threatening by their capacity and capabilities.
While good leaders are commended, wished never to have a terminated tenure, the bad leaders are wished for a short-term tenure.
Having completed his mission, the Prophet SAW didn’t apologise, he delivered more of a goodwill message, more of operational guidelines, a constitution that defines morality, leadership and administration, socioeconomic and political solutions, love, unity and mutual coexistence among others.
Having completed his tenure, the good leader looks back at his achievements and those he’s mentored and in a goodwill message, will advise that the mentees should add to their existing knowledge and skills, they should continue to be transparent, fair, live not in mutual suspension, separated by gossip but as a team devoid of unmanaged unconscious bias.
Those shouldered with leadership responsibilities shouldn’t therefore take to Pharaoh but be a hero with memorable legacy, their farewell should be a goodwill not occasion full of regrets and apologies.
This piece was first appeared in 2013, published in the Scope weekly paper