Sir Azuka Okwuosa, is a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) and a former member of Ojukwu Presidential Campaign Committee. In this interview with LEO SOBECHI, he explains the challenges of finding credible leadership in Igbo land and how APC has transformed the critical infrastructure in Southeast geopolitical zone.
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A school of thought believes the problem of Southeast, especially in Anambra State, which is the core of the Southeast, is the issue of leadership. Why is leadership selection a big challenge in Anambra and Southeast?
THE problem in Anambra State and Southeast has indeed been that of leadership and followership. Let me start with followership. The problem of our people, Ndigbo is that we want to lead our leaders. The problem of leadership is because, in a place where you don’t have good leadership, the followership will not be there. Leadership exudes confidence that attracts good followership. When Ojukwu was leading, automatically people rallied around him. Even in death, because of what he stood for, he still reigns from the grave. Today, we are still looking for that caliber of credible people who can make selfless service, people who can stick out their necks for the emancipation of the people. Those things are at a very low end because people are looking for bread and butter. So in the issue of leadership, there is a vacuum in the entire leadership spectrum of the Southeast. And the reasons are very obvious; we are looking at a situation where our leaders will be back home to administer the affairs of their people.