THE BURDEN OF LEADERSHIP:

THE BURDEN OF LEADERSHIP:

You see all those people speaking at the National Assembly Protest? If you make any of those speakers President of Nigeria today, he may not be able to perform as much as he’s speaking now, because of external and internal influences.

When Tinubu and Buhari led protests against the government of Goodluck Jonathan, they all spoke well and received ovations, How was Buhari’s government?, wasn’t it heavily criticised? Now Tinubu’s government is under attack.

So see, when you’re on the seat as President, you’ll discover that your hands are tied. You’ll be faced with Northern Agenda, Southern Agenda, Eastern Agenda, Western Agenda, Christian Agenda, Muslim Agenda, International influences, and many more, including spiritual powers: both good and evil.

If leadership was that easy, Jesus wouldn’t have advised that we give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God. In this case, Jesus understood that you need to submit to certain powers in order to have peace or to survive.

The same Subsidy Removal that President Tinubu and many opposition leaders led protests against happened to be Tinubu’s first economic decision. What he saw then and protested is different from what he sees now as a sitting President. So talk is cheap. Protest is easy; all you require to carry out a protest is people and a microphone, but to implement hard policies, that’s needed to transform the country, you need a sharp brain and time. A cheering crowd is not required.

Nigeria ceded the oil-rich Bakassi to Cameroon because of peace. Do you think the leadership of the country were comfortable with losing their prized land/resources to another country? No, but because of the exigency of the time.

I recall the statement made by former Head of State General Ibrahim Babangida, he said, allegedly, that if he didn’t annul the June 12 elections, he could have been killëd. So my friends, what those Leaders see, we can’t see it, and they can’t tell us.

Sometimes the decisions they take might not be what they really want, but they can’t help it, because of certain forces beyond their control.

President Tinubu and the Senate knows that keeping Mazi Nnamdi in prison is not fair but there are powerful elements within and outside the country that are responsible for his continuous incarceration. That’s why the President is negotiating and lobbying for his release on certain conditions, allegedly. Don’t ask me who set those conditions.

Also, recall that prominent African leaders like Patrice Lumumba, Muammar Gaddafi, Thomas Sankara, and many others lost their lives because they wanted a better country with economic independence but were eliminated brutally by their people, sponsored heavily by external forces.

Have you asked why Refineries in Nigeria are not working? Despite the initial push 🫸 by President Tinubu. Port Harcourt Refinery rehabilitation was on the News. We were told that it’s almost at 90% completed. Suddenly, no more News.

Spiritually, do you know that these Leaders are attacked by both Evil Spirits and Holy Spirits almost at the same time? And they are very confused?

I heard people say, if you can’t perform, resign. Is it easy to resign? There are places you enter, you can’t retreat, else you will be eliminated. It’s no retreat, no surrender.

That’s why the Bible advised us to pray for our leaders. It’s not easy with them.

Je m’appelle Daniel Edon