The senior Pastor of the Daystar Christian Centre, Sam Adeyemi has advocated that President Bola Tinubu should give a long term vision project of Nigeria to the youth
“Mr president needs to come with pictures, 3D of what Nigeria will be like in 30 years’ time,”
This was said by Pastor Adeyemi when he featured on Channels Television’s Sunrise programme on Saturday morning
The cleric expressed that when Tinubu do that it will inspire youth because the importance of a good leaders in the society is to shape societal beliefs and driving sustainable change.
“No leader will create sustainable change if he or she cannot shift the mindset and you cannot shift the people’s culture if you cannot without shifting people’s belief and their mindset,” he stated.
Drawing from his experiences, Adeyemi shared how a former governor struggled to instill the importance of vision among his cabinet members.
“I have an ex-governor who is a friend. I went to visit him whilst he was governor. And then he said, ‘Brother Sam, my biggest problem is not infrastructure.’ They were celebrating two years in office then, and he was celebrating over two years,” Adeyemi recounted.
The former governor revealed that his primary challenge was not building physical structures but changing the mindset of his team.
“He said when I want to do a job, I get the best contractor to do the job. He said my biggest problem is mindset. He said on my own cabinet, one of the members of the state executive came to tell me that they were having a conversation somewhere and they were saying: ‘the governor will just be talking about vision. Will we eat vision?’
“He said, ‘Can you imagine that the people on my cabinet – the state executive – do not even understand vision? They don’t value vision; they are just looking for what they want to eat, talk less of the citizens.’”
