CHOPbeating:
...since it was amalgamated based on personal monarchied economic reason.

MinorityOpinion:
overlooking the academic achievement of acandidate will only give people with NEPA bill more chance to rule us.

I'll suggest education should be the major yard stick while others follow. Education is a must.

strykr:


Educational achievement is different from being an academic. By academics, I meant professionals in the education sector, people like lecturers, teachers, professors e t.c. Those are the set of people that have continously failed as administrators. Doctors, engineers, lawyers all have good education, but are not academics. Please note the difference.

MinorityOpinion:


I wasn't paying attention lol. Both the academics and non academics (I find the comparison amusing) would do a better job. First of all you need to be educated then you bring out your mandate and previous accomplishement

strykr:


Educational achievement is different from being an academic. By academics, I meant professionals in the education sector, people like lecturers, teachers, professors e t.c. Those are the set of people that have continously failed as administrators. Doctors, engineers, lawyers all have good education, but are not academics. Please note the difference.

strykr:
Nigeria became a nation after the 1914 almagamation.. Nigeria attained self rule and independence in 1960. Sixty years after independence, the Nigerian project have failed to reach her potentials and is touted as a massive failure and disgrace among her contemporaries.

Nigeria have had over 15 heads of states who have in one way or the other contributed to the failure and deterioration of the country. Do you know that virtually all the heads of states either came from a military or academic background. The only exception to the is rule was the short lived, puppet reign of Ernest Shonekan who had a law background.

Coming down to state level, the best governors in Nigeria have had non academic non military backgrounds like law, engineering, medicine, architecture, philosophy e.t.c. Examples are Fashola, Amaechi, Akpabio, Kwankwaso, Peter Obi, Sullivan Chime, Donald Duke, Dave Umahi.
On the other side, some of the worst performing governors in the current dispensation are from the academic sector, e.g: Ikpeazu, Ayade e.t.c.

I'm not saying an academic or military person can't make a good leader, or that a non-academic or non military can't make a bad leader, but looking forward to 2023, I think it's high time Nigeria tried something different. We've given academics and military men the benefit of the doubt since 1960, and all it has shown is how hopeless, intellectually deficient and degenerate the educational and security system of Nigeria is.


If Nigeria remains by 2023 and the next election, we need to look beyond religion, tribe, reputation and other criteria of our peculiar politics. We need to consider the background of our next president. Using our past experience as a yardstick, I say a BIG fat NO!!!! to any president of academic or military background no matter how goodand enticing they look.

Powerintoxicate:
what's intellectual about this thrash? All these novices on Nairaland Sha. Go do a degree then a master's then PhD and you can now talk about intellectualism