“I KNOW how to motivate my men to go into the heart of gunfire,” Napoleon Bonaparte was quoted to have said. What was this special skill that the French revolutionary leader and one of history’s most celebrated military strategists rely on to make this profound statement? Simple. He had the heart of the soldiers in his palms. How? It was said that Napoleon neither distanced himself from his soldiers, nor the people of France. He fought the battles with them, relaxed with them, ate and drank the same food and drinks with them, slept on the same type of bed like them and conducted himself like any other soldier despite having the power of life and death in his hand.
The compelling lesson here: Any leader, who firmly grabs the heart of the people, achieves the impossible as easily as blowing out a candle.
The world is replete with examples – Mahatma Gandhi of India, Mao Zedong of China, American Civil Rights Leader, Martin Luther King, Kwame Nkruma of Ghana, Nnamdi Azikiwe of Nigeria, Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Barack Obama of America. The list continues to swell daily.
The same template has been transported to the Nigerian power sector to remedy the obvious intractable problems responsible for the elusiveness of constant electricity. At the driving seat of this initiative is the new helmsman, Prof. Ositadinma Nebo. It is a silent, quiet, noiseless revolution. But the effect is tremendous. On Friday, May 3, during one in the series of meetings with stakeholders in the sector, Nebo demonstrated how it works.
It was a short parley. But by the time it rose, he practically had the heart of everyone at the conference hall of the Ministry of Power, including those watching on the sidelines in his palms. It was magical. But it evidenced the reason why every step of this first-rate scholar, preacher and exemplary manager of men and materials in his previous assignments is dotted with success and spoken about in superlatives
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