A thinking leader is a planning leader. There is no gainsaying the fact that Nigeria, especially given the multifaceted challenges with which it currently has to contend, needs leaders with strategic foresight: a unique ability to identifying current and future trends and initiate sustainable plans to respond to them.
Angela Miller, a scholar at the Department of Foresight, University of Houston, Stuttgart, Germany, notes that foresight is particularly helpful for planning and navigating risks and opportunities in politics.
This quality was in ample evidence when, long before President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced the Federal Government’s decision to remove fuel subsidy in his May 29 inaugural address, the Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, anticipated the move and charted a data and science-driven course to ameliorate the impact on the populace.
Arguing that the regime of subsidy was most likely to be eliminated…
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