BY OJIMAOJO ABUBAKAR, ABUJA
Amid the leadership issues in Nigeria,the National Chief Imam Al-habibiyyah Islamic Society, Imam Fuad Adeyemi has said that with good leaders in the country everything will be right.
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Imam Faud stated this while speaking with journalists on the sidelines of 19th National Unity Ramadan Lecture with the theme”Ramadan: Shaping Leadership”,at the Al-habibiyyah Islamic Society centre, Abuja, yesterday.
He said When we have people who are conscious of what leadership is, they will do the right thing without being told without being force without being coerced on like people who are there now because their political leaders.”
Explaining about the theme of this year event,he said ,Ramadan has always been the changing time in the entire world and because of that, we choose this topic because if you look at all strata of Nigerian society, you discovered that we only produce politician, a politician or people who want to scheme to be in power not ready or have what it takes to be in power.
“I do not mean our only political leaders, even in the civil service. I mean, the leaders who are at home, I mean, the leaders who are there in other places, I mean, the leaders who are there, that’s what we mean shaping leadership.
“If you were able to see that we now have leaders who are conscious of what leadership is because it is a careful process that leads to results is not just scheming to be in a position. So it is that careful process of being in a position that we want to reshape with the month of Ramadan and with the Glorious Quran,”he said.
Cheif Imam, University of Abuja,prof.Azeez Taofiq, who is the guest lecturer,the leader is a human being and it is essentially the kind of human being that he will display in leadership position.
According to him,”If the leader fears God is a God fearing person. He will display that and would be merciful to the people. He will display God consciousness and insists on the general good of the people.”
Citing example of Umar Ibn Khatab,he said “Umar will be interested in how people really live.He will not be interested in policies on paper. He will be interested in policy implementation on the streets. He wants to know who is laughing, who is crying, who is happy, who is sad, and is conscious of the fact that Allah Almighty.
“The Prophets Muhammad SAW he will look at each of you is a shepherd, and each of you will be questioned about his sheep. If he’s a believer, in Allah and the messenger, you will be conscious of the effect of his leadership on the life of the people.
“Generally, he will not be discriminatory, he will not favor a party, a tribe or anything like the example of Umar give. He will take human beings as human beings that Allah has put on the him and at least ask him how merciful it was.”
On her part, the former Kogi State Governor’s Wife Hajiya Wada,said” A leaders must leave by example and also have integrity especially as Muslims,you have Taqwa because before we can teach Qur’an ,you have must have integrity and must be able to live by Qur’an”.
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