Jonathan doesn’t need to be hero worshipped – Oby Ezekwesili

by Anike Jacobs

While everyone else, including the most powerful man in the world, Barack Obama, have been showering accolades on president Goodluck Jonathan for his gracious act of conceding defeat to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on March 31, convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group and former minister of education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, has something to add.

According to her, the menace of sycophancy in the corridors of power contributes to the failure of individuals who occupy leadership positions.

She took to her Twitter page hours ago, saying:

When a review of President Jonathan’s administration is done, we’ll realize how much damage sycophancy did to governance. Example? Chibok Girls,” she wrote.

“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 encourages team to withhold accurate ‘bad’ news (problems) from the leader while serving up ‘good news’.

“When a leader makes hero worshiping costly to those who engage in it, he/she deprives the ‘sellers’ market to set the ‘Mediocrity Benchmark.’

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

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