The Leaders We Need Are Not Always The Leaders We Celebrate

 @The Leaders We Need Are Not Always The Leaders We Celebrate

We have become so accustomed to celebrating the people on the stage that we sometimes forget the people who built the stage. We celebrate the person holding the microphone, yet forget the one who spent years giving others a voice. We celebrate the person in the convoy, yet overlook the teacher who walks miles every morning to reach children who may never be able to repay the sacrifice. We celebrate the title, the office, the applause and the photograph, while some of the finest leaders among us are quietly serving in places where there are no cameras, no medals and no standing ovations.

There are people who have spent their lives lifting others while remaining unseen. They have paid school fees for children who call someone else “Mummy” or “Daddy”. They have opened doors they could never enter themselves. They have stayed awake worrying about young people who may not even know someone is fighting for them. They have used their little resources to solve problems that were never theirs to solve. Some have grown old serving communities that may never remember their names. Some will leave this world without a plaque, a national honour or a trending tribute. Yet, somewhere, a child is educated because they cared. Somewhere, a young person still believes in tomorrow because they refused to give up on them.

This is the leadership we desperately need—the leadership that understands that a position is not a privilege to be enjoyed, but a responsibility to be carried. The leadership that does not ask, “How many people know me?” but “How many lives are better because of me?” The leadership that can walk away from public praise but cannot walk away from public responsibility. For what is the value of occupying an office if the people we were entrusted to serve remain forgotten? What is the honour in being called “leader” if those behind us are still standing where we found them?

Perhaps we should begin to celebrate differently. Perhaps before we applaud the powerful, we should remember the faithful. Before we honour the famous, we should search for the forgotten. Before we teach our children how to become influential, we should teach them how to become useful. For one day, every title will be removed, every office will be handed over, every photograph will fade, and every applause will become silence. On that day, what may remain is not the position we occupied, but the people whose lives we touched while we occupied it.

The greatest leaders may never have the biggest crowds. They may never hear the loudest applause. They may never see their names carved in marble.

Yet when they are gone, there will be lives that whisper, “I am here because they did not give up on me.”

And perhaps, in the final accounting of leadership, that is the only applause that truly matters.

Yours in fulfilment,

@Otunba Dr Femi Abiola, MCE

@President

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