Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has blamed Nigerians leaders for being killers of the greater Nigerian dream because they are not wealth creators.
Abubakar said this in an address he delivered at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) on Wednesday.
He said because most of the leaders do not know how to create wealth themselves, they end up mismanaging whenever they meet on ground.
Speaking on the theme: “The Importance of Strengthening State Economic Management Systems,” Abubakar said: “For long, our leadership has been pampered.
“We work into managing a wealth we have little input into how it is created.
“And because we are not involved in the creation, we rarely appreciate it.
“Hence, we turn out as either bad managers or killers of the greater Nigerian dream.”
Abubakar, who served as former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s deputy between 1999 and 2007, said he has made it a duty to establish at least one company every year that can offer Nigerians employment.
Abubakar, who also spoke extensively on the restructuring of the country, added: “For instance, I insist, anybody who cannot tell Nigerians at the State level how, he/she is going to generate the required resources to run the State he/she is aspiring to govern is not worthy of the electorates’ votes.
“Nigeria needs a leadership that can create wealth for the country and make it work.
“Every part of Nigeria has enough wealth to sustain it.
“What is lacking is the leadership with the required capacity and vision to tap and manage the wealth on behalf of all.
“To me, any skeptic of restructuring Nigeria, is submitting to the leadership indolence which has denied the country its cherished position of leading Africa to greatness.”
The full speech is published elsewhere in this news website.
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