Political leadership is a relay race, and at the end of
one person’s tenure another leader is elected and handed the Batten of leadership, and we all know the state
of the American economy when President Obama took
over don’t we? America (thanks to George Bush) was
in an economic crisis which was threatening to destabilise the entire global economy. So when Obama
took over as President, he immediately went to work
in an attempt to revive the American economy. Now,
whether he has done a good job or not is a different
story but many Americans feel that the quantitative
easing exercises are helping, although anybody with
even a basic knowledge of economics can see right
through it and know that with each new Dollar bill that
is created out of thin air, the overall value of the dollar
goes down, but that is a discussion for another day.
Now, what was the condition of the Nigerian aviation
sector prior to Her Excellency Princess Stella OduahOgiemwonyi’s appointment as Minister? It was comatose? A completely lifeless and visionless sector which
lacked any form of direction, and yet just 2 years into
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her tenure we have seen the remarkable transformation which is taking place in the aviation industry.
For some Nigerians that change is not happening fast
enough, and thus they have decided to overlook the
positive and dwell on sheer negativity, and this was
why I asked the former question regarding the state of
the sector prior to Princess Stella’s appointment.
As a nation, we need to learn the art of apprecia-
tion, especially when it comes to public servants who
are pulling their weight and fighting tooth and nail to
make a difference in their sectors instead of simply
just looking for how to pull them down with our nasty
comments and counterproductive rhetoric.
We have to judge situations with an unbiased mind
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