…Quotes Anyaoku’s view on Leadership

(1) Engr Chris Emeka Azubogu while celebrating the former Secretary-General of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku over his 88th birthday, stated that the Elder statesman is a patriot and one of our best export to the world.

(2) “Anyaoku is a patriot and one of our best export to the world who my generation and next to come will always draw from his inspiring height of commitment for a peaceful and working society. Anyaoku was the Secretary-General of Commonwealth from 1990 to 2000 who during his stewardship, played a key role that saw the apartheid regime peacefully replaced with democracy that allowed all South Africans to participate in their Nation’s governance.”

(3) According to Azubogu, Chief Emeka Anyaoku who is holding a traditional Ndichie Chieftainship, the ‘Adazie of Obosi’ is a combination of loyalty for One’s ethnic group, Country and the International community;

(4) ” Anyaoku is a combination of loyalty to one’s ethnic group, country, and the international community. No wonder he remains to date the only African to have held the position of Secretary-general of Commonwealth where he placed the flag of our Nation high as a people that with a commitment for global peace” Azubogu said.

(5) Azubogu also used to opportunity to call for attention towards our local schools, saying that Emeka Anyaoku and many others were products of our local schools.

(6) “When we consider that Emeka Anyaoku came from our local school system, then you will agree with me that we have to review our today’s education with the focus on the needs of now and that of the future,” he said.

(7) Let me end this birthday. wish with a quote from Chief Emeka Anyaoku on his view about leadership while as a guest speaker during the 10th-anniversary lecture of Senator Abraham Adesanya in Lagos, May 2018. He said:

(8) “A leader must, in my view, possess to a good degree inter alia the following attributes: the capacity to inspire and form an affinity with the people that the leader is leading; the capacity to have and articulate a vision of where he/she plans to take the country concerned; the capacity to deliver electoral promises; and the capacity to identify with and be seen to be tackling the challenges facing the people he/she is leading. Hence, leadership is primarily about service, and servant leadership enables the building of trust with bonding and continuing inspiration of the people. Good leadership must be defined by discipline, resilience, perseverance, determination, unyielding devotion, and, above all, a strong political will to act without deference to sectionalism.”

(9) The member representing Nnewi North/Nnewi South/ Ekwusigo Federal Constituency, Azubogu Prayed that God will continue to preserve Chief Emeka Anyaoku as he remains a stabilizing force in our Polity.

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Azubogu Media Office
19th January 2021