{"id":64831,"date":"2025-04-25T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64831"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:28:03","slug":"amaechi-blasts-hero-worship-calls-for-bold-accountable-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/25\/amaechi-blasts-hero-worship-calls-for-bold-accountable-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaechi Blasts Hero Worship, Calls for Bold, Accountable Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oso Abidemi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has declared that Nigeria&#8217;s crisis is rooted not in weak leadership but in a citizenry that refuses to demand accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the ninth edition of the 2025 Akinjide Adeosun Foundation Leadership Colloquium and Award in Lagos, themed \u201cFearless Leadership: A Panacea for Sustainable Development,\u201d Amaechi said the country\u2019s salvation lies in fearless followership and strong institutions\u2014not in mythical, messiah-like leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere the system works, you don\u2019t need a courageous leader,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s only when there is a collapse that we begin to crave fearless leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former minister, in a hard-hitting critique, said arbitrary power, injustice, and a disregard for due process are signs of failed governance. He warned that true accountability goes beyond budget figures, pointing instead to a deeper respect for the rule of law and institutional checks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process. Authoritarian leaders fear transparency\u2014they want unchecked control,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking at the event, AAF Founder Akinjide Adeosun stressed that greatness begins with goodness, and fearless leadership is essential for impactful change in areas like healthcare and industrialisation.<\/p>\n<p>Former Lagos governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje, challenged Nigerians to examine the systems that either nurture or stifle courageous leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue fearlessness,\u201d he said, \u201cis when leaders speak truth to power and still have their families protected and cared for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Together, the speakers urged a cultural shift from worshiping power to demanding performance, as the true path to national development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has declared that Nigeria&#8217;s crisis is rooted not in weak leadership but in a citizenry that refuses to demand accountability. Speaking at the ninth edition of the 2025 Akinjide Adeosun Foundation Leadership Colloquium and Award in Lagos, themed \u201cFearless Leadership: A Panacea for Sustainable Development,\u201d Amaechi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64833,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831\/revisions\/64833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}