The law of the Lid
You can’t do for others what you haven’t done for yourself.
By Rev. Olu Martins
Years ago, a woman took her teenage son to the great sage, Mahatma Ghamdi for counseling. The woman wanted Mahatma Ghamdi to talk to her son to stop the use of excessive sugar.
When the woman and her son got to Mahatma she explained her ordeal about her son to him and wanted Ghandi to counsel him to cut down drastically on his intake of sugar.
Surprisingly Mahatma just simply told her to bring the boy to him again in two weeks and never said anything about sugar intake.
Two weeks came and they returned to Mahatma Ghandi. The woman thinking that the Mahatma was going to apply some deep psychological formula in advising the boy was alarmed when Mahatma Ghandi simply just told the boy in very few words that sugar was bad and he needed to regulate his intake of it.
The woman was shocked and she didn’t understand why it took Mahatma Ghandi two weeks to tell a young man to stop using sugar.
After the brief session, the woman couldn’t help it but to ask Mahatma Ghandi why he didn’t tell the boy the very first day what it took him two weeks to say.
Mahatma Ghandi pulled the woman aside and whispered to her ears that two weeks ago he too was still using sugar excessively and it won’t make sense to be advising someone to stop what he was still indulging in.
Leadership is the same thing, you can’t do for others what you haven’t done for yourself. In choosing leaders, you need to look at their lives and ask yourself if your desired leader has done for himself what you want him to do for you.
A simple Google search will answer your questions. Dr Asue Ighodalo has achieved more in life, covered more grounds and has demonstrated sheer resilience in moving from the base of the ladder in life and career to the peak of economic and intellectual achievement.
Indeed but for politics, which they say is a leveler none of the other candidates in this elections would have qualified to be Dr Asue Ighodalo’s personal assistant Amawe sitting on the same table with him or even contesting with him.
When you have been Chairman of first class conglomerates, built an A-rate international law firm from the scratch, been chairman of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, you nearly have seen it all in the business field and organized private sector.
To now ask you to enter into a contestation for the number one leadership position in a brilliant state like Edo with a former welder with little education who was fortunate to become a senator because of protest vote tells you our value for intellectual content especially from the opposition.
Like Mahatma Ghandi Dr Asue Ighodalo is the only candidate qualified to tell us to “stop using sugar” having “stopped using sugar” himself. He is the only one that can take Edo to great heights having achieved great heights himself.
A leader must know the way, show the way and go the way. Dr Asue Ighodalo clearly knows the way, has shown the way and has gone the way. He IS THE MAN.
Rev Olu Martins is the Deputy Director General Media and Publicity for the Asue/Ogie Campaign Management Council. He writes from his farm in amagba Edo State.
