2023: Baba-Ahmed Reveals The Type Of President Nigeria Needs

The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, says the country needs a type of President who will genuinely recognize that governance is the work of the public servants.

Naija News reports that Baba-Ahmed made this known during an appearance on Daily Politics, a Trust Television programme, on Tuesday.

The NEF spokesman stated the government can only get the best from the public service if workers are allowed enough scope and incentivised.

He, therefore, slammed politicians for enriching themselves while allowing civil servants who do the work to go home with meagre salaries.

He said: “You need to have a president and governance who will genuinely recognize the fact that governance is 90 percent the work of the public servants and you allow them enough scope and you incentivise them enough,” he said.

“You will get quality governance in place and you must curb corruption. A political leadership which is corrupt cannot stop public servants from being corrupt.

“You have to give people living wages. You can’t be giving people N50,000 a month and you expect them to perform optimally.

“That money alone if used for transport will last the earner only one week, just to come from home and go back.

“This is crazy and yet politicians take home millions and millions of money. The real people who do the work of government are the civil servants. Why should legislators, ministers and governors be taking hundreds of millions home? It is wrong.”