The Nigerian Bar Association has reiterated the need for good governance as well as leaders helping to redeem the country’s image.
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olumide Akpata said this in Lagos during the 18th Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture.
According to Akpata, Nigerians are trailing the direction of their leaders, meaning that if the leaders should get it right, Nigerians will also get it right.
He urged Nigerians to go to the polls to elect worthy leaders such as Gani Fawehinmi, who defended and fought for the society as well as enthrone good governance.
”Bad leadership has helped to destroy followership. If we start with enthroning good leadership, the followers will follow. All the followers need to do now is to be part of that process of enthroning good leadership. Get your voters card and participate in the election. Let us go out there and ensure that we actually put in place good leadership through the ballot box;” he said.
Mr. Akpata also announced the NBA’s readiness to make the Chief Gani Fawehinmi’s annual lecture a national event.
”I will therefore be proposing to the national executive council of the NBA that going forward, the Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture becomes a national NBA event. Chief Gani Fawehinmi stood tall and stood out,” he added.
Other dignitaries at the annual lecture were legal practitioners that supports making the Gani Annual lecture a reality as well as a national programme.
The lawyers charged leaders at all levels in Nigeria to emulate the footsteps of late Gani, who, according to them, believed in good governance, fought for the oppressed and was detribalized.
The Lecture has its theme ‘The Imperative of Good Governance And The Struggles Of Chief Gani Fawehinmi.’
