GEJ and Greatness
The media of recent is awash with campaigns portraying President Goodluck Jonathan as a great leader and as the only alternative to take Nigeria  to the proverbial promised land. He is equated to be at par with great world leaders and global shapers like Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Lee Kwan Yew and Barrack Obama.
To possess the quality of a great leader influencing men towards positive change, I will like to borrow from the criteria used by a great United States psychoanalyst and professor in the Chigaco University, Jules Masserman.
Set of qualities that make a leader great in the degree that the marketers of GEJ want him to be seen should not be based on fancies and prejudices. Besides, these campaigns are bankrolled by "political investors" who hope to be compensated with juicy appointments and other favours,( though I see no fault in that if round pegs will be placed in round holes.)
Jules Masserman does not want us to depend on our fancies and prejudices: he wants to establish objective standards for judging before we confer greatness upon anybody. He says that "leaders must fulfill three functions":
1. The leader must provide for the well being of the led.
The leader whoever he/she is must be genuinely interested in the welfare of the generality of the people irrespective of their ethnic background, region, political affiliation, social class or religious leanings. Do we see that under GEJ's Government? I urge the reader to make an objective assessment.
2. The leader or would be leader must provide social organisation in which people feel relatively secure.
In other words, the leader must ensure that the people he leads or intends to lead develop confidence that, with him/her at the helm of affairs, they will feel secure. Are we in Nigeria now secured or feel secure under this Government? Some argue that insecurity currently facing the nation did not start under GEJ's watch, rather it predated him and therefore, he should not be blamed for the current situation. As a leader, one is not elected to solve problems that only emanated during his/her reign. Nonetheless, security and how it is handled is a topic for another time.
3. That the leader must provide his people with one set of beleifs.
Beliefs in this context does not equate to religion. A belief of pride in a nation, love for country, love for unity, love for development, passion for positive advancement as a nation, a belief to be the envy of other nations. Great leadership means ability to move masses of men towards unity and development.
The Great leaders of the world we hear of, respect and revere, to a large extent fulfilled these criteria. Does GEJ possess these qualities to be equated along with the world's great leaders and global shapers? It is for us to ponder objectively and give our assessment of GEJ's capacity to be termed great as his image makers want him to be.

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theories don't work in practice
Mandela is said to be a great leader, but did not tick your boxes