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M.K.O. Abiola Ibrahim Babangida Olusegun Obasanjo Umar Yar'Adua Chronicles of Nigeria's Leadership Decay (Part.2) Just like Mac Arthur Douglas [the American general] argued in his memoirs that judgment was a crucial determinant of successful leadership. An officer with poor judgment ought to be made to face court martial, he concluded. Obasanjo, not only made the wrong judgments in a preponderant number of his policies and decisions, even in his personal, turbulent and bohemian life, he was in general infatuated with poor judgment at same time addicted to so many transparent monkeyshines. The consequence of his abrasive tongue, his impulsive behavior and his almost surrealistic attachment to the smaller pleasures of life was that he came across as a rather plain man, even a rustic, transported by a freak of nature into positions far beyond his ken. A reporter once said that no man was so privileged to remake Nigeria history and no one ever made such a spectacular failure o...

Yakubu Gowon Sani Abacha Mohammadu Buhari Obafemi Awolowo Murtala Mohammed Chronicles of Nigeria’s Leadership decay (Part.1) If character is taken in isolation, Murtala Mohammed would be considered to glow with desirable commodity. When he was alive leading the nation ( Nigeria ), he had on an inner conviction which seemed to resonate well with Nigerians who were so dissatisfied with Yakubu Gowon’ s regime. A government that had a character the was not matched with adequate judgment. We must not forget that character always goes with something else, otherwise the notorious stubbornness and cocksureness of Nigeria’s former president Obasanjo could be confused with character. We’ve had leaders of very noble characters. We can actually make comparison with the case of French De Gaulle in 1946, when he attempted to amend the French 5th Republic Constitution and he was vehemently rebuffed. Ask me what he did: He had enough character to resign his position. As a man who believes in G...