Bello Matawalle believes that retaining Tinubu as president will give stability to the political system, writes IBRAHIM ABBA
Where there is vision, there is development. This is the philosophy of Bello Matawalle, a staunch supporter of President Bola Tinubu. To him, Tinubu is a visionary leader endowed with courage and a plucky spirit to dare. He has been up and about selling Tinubu to Nigerians of all tongues. He sees in Tinubu a leader gifted with the bravery to navigate the uncharted course, dare the odds and stand victorious. That, to Matawalle, is the leader Nigeria needs now.
Leadership, especially political leadership, is not populism. It is about taking tough decisions and executing them for the prosperity of the people. Think of America, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan. These nations at a point in their history suffered terrible economic downturn, some mixed with political turmoil. But leadership brought them out of the pit. It took President Franklin D. Roosevelt to pull America out of the Great Depression that stretched the US from 1929 to 1941. Lee Kuan Yew rebuilt a dejected Singapore from the ruins of war. What is common in all these cases is the intentional transformative leadership philosophy that wore the garment of activism without losing its touch of humanism.
