{"id":169954,"date":"2025-07-17T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/buhari-urges-leaders-to-serve-with-purpose"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:57:37","slug":"buhari-urges-leaders-to-serve-with-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-urges-leaders-to-serve-with-purpose","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Urges Leaders to Serve with Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Moses Paul, chairmanship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for AMAC in the FCT, has called on Nigerian leaders to confront the certainty of death with humility and let it reshape how they lead, live, and serve.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking days after the death of the immediate past President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, Paul revealed that, \u201cEvery time a leader dies, we are reminded of a truth we often ignore. Our time too will come. No position, no wealth, no security detail, no popularity can delay the final call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He invoked the examples of global figures like Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II, and Steve Jobs, emphasizing how even the most powerful and celebrated eventually bowed to mortality, not with pomp but with dignity and the memories they left behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a disturbing arrogance of power in this country,\u201d he said. \u201cYou see it in the convoys, in the grandstanding, in the looting of public funds, in the silencing of dissent. Yet all it takes is one breath withheld, and it is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bringing the reflection closer to home, Paul paid tribute to the late Dora Akunyili, Chinua Achebe, and Gani Fawehinmi, whom he described as Nigerians who \u201cdied empty, having poured out what they carried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real question is not \u2018Will I die?\u2019 but \u2018How am I living now?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAre we using power to uplift, or to exploit? Are we building legacies, or just reputations?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He sharply criticized the state of the nation\u2019s healthcare system and public infrastructure, linking leadership failure to the suffering and untimely deaths of countless Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost Nigerians face death the same way they face life, without electricity, without medicine, without care,\u201d he lamented. \u201cWe must build a nation where people do not need to run abroad to live or to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing the examples of Nelson Mandela and Julius Nyerere, both of whom stepped down voluntarily while still revered, Dr. Paul emphasized that dignity in leadership is not in holding on to power but in walking humbly among one\u2019s people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet your loved ones feel the warmth of your love more than the cold of the world,\u201d he advised. \u201cThat is how we honour life, even in death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody takes a convoy to the grave. Only memory follows us. Let us live and lead so that when we are gone, those who remain won\u2019t just say \u2018He died.\u2019 They will say, \u2018He lived for something.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari, who died at the age of 82, served as Nigeria\u2019s Head of State from 1983 to 1985 and as a democratically elected President from 2015 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Moses Paul, chairmanship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for AMAC in the FCT, has called on Nigerian leaders to confront the certainty of death with humility and let it reshape how they lead, live, and serve. 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