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When I started exposing this superior brand, many came with bulldozers and rockets against me. I never allowed their blind war deter me day after day. I preached the homily of Hon Shiru Lawal, at some point I felt I surpassed what apostle Paul did in Antioch. You know Paul ran away to escape being lynched by the Pharisees and Sadducee. But I stood before the Pharisees of Lokoja sons and daughters both home and abroad, educating them on the values of this brand.
They tagged me names, calling me praise singer and sycophant, rubbishing my articles and opinions as a total waste of effort on a stooge and political neophyte, whom will not progress in the government. I remember one of my friends on the social network here, advising me to consider myself sailing on the route to self-political destruction.Though many did not see me as a politician.
In every generation, nature always present races with barrier breakers, a man who will redirect their fortunes and bring them to greatness. Even when Isa (Jesus) had come and gone the Jews still believe the messiah is yet to come. Since I started this re-orientation, day after day I was pressurized by many with financial inducements to withdraw by earnest support, but I continued without a second thought for I saw what they did not see.
Though many know the advantage our local government is bound to benefit from the expertise and exposure of Hon Shiru Lawal, they are aggrieved because he is not a professional politician with one thousand years of politicking.
Some tandem their hatred against Shiru who was not borne from such, but from a political point of view, this meteroic rise and its peculiar circumstances come with a burden. This explains the exceptional and unprecedented gang up against him.
However, Politics is a game of interest and the interest is what gives birth to segregation. In all cases, segregationists embrace dividing lines because segregation gives them a tool of improved power. Some people may ask, why Shiru Lawal outshines the many aspirants in Lokoja ? His show of honesty endears him to me and all and that is why moral leadership is very strategic because it determines the success or failure in achieving goals. Honesty is the most essential characteristic of a leader and the most easily seen.
Honesty is the basis of every action leaders take. If leaders can’t show others that he can be trusted in word and deed, just like its fondly name Talk&Do, the leader will have no followers. Honest leadership is regarded highly in any clime aiming to develop at top speed. That is why statistics show that places where corruption index is low, more development takes place.
Transparency is an effort to enforce honesty. With transparency, participation in monitoring the entire government will be accommodated so as to minimize the potentialities for dishonesty. The direct consequence of a conduct that is not transparent is political corruption, the abuse of public office for personal gain. Corruption can be expressed as a dishonest act. Hon Shiru has over the span of his career displayed this transparent honesty.
A humble leader does not create class of association; he wines and dines with the low and high with no sense of red lines in class. Every humble leader is a practitioner of Servant leadership which is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better governance and ultimately creates a more just and caring world. A servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong.
While traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the “top of the pyramid”, servant leadership is different. The servant-leader shares power, puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible.
This is one of the virtues embedded in the life of Shiru Lawal that has confirmed him a servant leader and this has made the people to accept him unconditionally. But politics is a game of wits. It’s a battle for the strong, the more prepared and the more grounded. Political opponents are usually naturally intimidated by superior credentials.
They play it down, rubbish it, and make it look as if it counts for nothing. It simply justifies why Shiru Lawal is a lurid for those who believe he has an edge over them in the 2018-19 race. Considering his qualification, job experience, his virtues and general acceptance of his leadership traits, they resort to maligning his image in order to dwarf his acceptability before the populace. But this ancient gimmick doesn’t appear to work. Instead of decaying his statue, his fame has expanded impressively, Lokoja people can attest to this fact.
A journey through history reveals that leaders who emerge in each era are men that define that time; Men who define the thinking, technology, culture, religion, development and every other aspect of that time period. In Lokoja local government there are a lot of politicians. Some of them are successful, the others are not, and there some who believe it is their birth right to be in governance as long as they last and will rise against any risen leader to pull him down at all cost. Sadly, today Shiru Lawal is a victim of these career politicians hunt Down syndrome.
Hon Shiru Lawal has long submerged their obstacles and has become the most popular and accepted administrator and aspirant, across Lokoja local government.
While Prudence is not paralysis. It is the strength of character when it leads us to do things in a judicious way. Hon Shiru Lawal is a prudent man, whose dignity has made him great through wisdom and integrity.
It is his wisdom that earned him a productive career as a banker and is the same vein which made Gov Yahay Bello to demand for effort and commitment to come and join him in the service of the New Direction to the land of his birth.
He has continued to endear himself to the people of Lokoja local government with so much prudent proceedings that he has brought to bear in the day to day running of governance in the local government. His presence gives his boss peace in attending to others issues of National and State importance having known that he is a capable hand.
Today, some Lokoja people say they are shirucated, some say they are shiruified , the majority are clamouring for Talk and Do in 2018-19 and some tag themselves Shiruist . Oh My God! What a wonder you have done that even the mighty are now fully Shiruvirus , those who never wish to hear his name are now fighting to outplay my standing through blackmail and character assassination.
They are holding meeting planning how to slay my head to be in the forefront of media support for Hon Shiru Lawal, Oh my God! Shiru Lawal, what a magic in a name, but to me is not about the name but the virtues embedded in the personality of the persona.
God Bless Lokoja Local Government.
– Mubaraq Yasmin
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