Tinubu Should Give Youths Pictures Of Nigeria In 30 Years – Pastor Sam Adeyemi
Adeyemi said leaders must strive to change people’s belief systems to create sustainable change.
Ahead of the national youth conference scheduled for the first quarter of 2025, the Senior Pastor of Lagos-based church, Daystar Christian Centre, Sam Adeyemi, has said that President Bola Tinubu must give youths compelling pictures of what Nigeria will be in the next 30 years.
“Mr president needs to come with pictures, 3D of what Nigeria will be like in 30 years’ time,” he said as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise programme on Saturday.
Adeyemi said leaders must strive to change people’s belief systems to create 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 said.
Adeyemi recounted his encounter with a serving governor whose commissioners don’t understand the power of vision for collective development.
He said, “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
“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 does not even understand vision? They don’t value vision; they are just looking for what they want to east talk less of the citizens’.”
The cleric further said the dynamics of leadership must change for the development of Nigeria.
He said many people’s New Year resolutions are already unraveling because there can’t be sustainable change until it is brought about from the subconscious to the conscious. “You can’t kill a habit; you have to replace it with a new one — nature harbors a vacuum,” he said.
