Post by menari personal and family support (@menaripfs)

Leadership or Followership
Is Nigeria’s problem only bad leaders — or do followers share the blame? A recent conversation with a friend who just joined local politics gave me another perspective.

My friend, now a community leader with the ruling party, told me about a moment that stuck with him. A resident handed him a wedding invitation and added, “Please come in your car — it won’t look nice if I introduce you as my community leader and you didn’t arrive in a car.”
That request, he said, revealed more than social expectation: it showed how followership can reward image over integrity, patronage over performance.

If you want better leadership, start with how you follow. Ask yourself: Do I reward promises or results? Do I prioritise image or impact? Small choices: who you praise, who you vote for, who you call out , change the incentives leaders respond to.

Do you think followers enable bad leadership? Yes or No — tell me why.

Leadership or Followership Is Nigeria’s problem only bad leaders — or do followers share the blame?...

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Kings Nation: Bad leadership survives when good people normalize it. Followers may not hold office, but they influence the system through their silence, loyalty, and expectations.
Kings Nation: Followers may not create every problem, but the things we celebrate, tolerate, and excuse can encourage bad leadership to continue.
Cephason Skycruz Kings: If citizens start rewarding honesty, competence, and accountability, leadership culture will gradually change too.
Cephason Skycruz Kings: Yes, followers play a role too. A leader can only keep getting away with poor performance when people continue defending, praising, or rewarding failure.
Kings Nation: Sometimes we complain privately but publicly celebrate the same behaviours hurting the country.
Kings Nation: The truth is, leadership reflects the values a society tolerates. Once followers begin demanding results instead of excuses, leaders will be forced to do better.
Cephason Skycruz Kings: That example is deeper than it looks. Many people respect symbols of power more than actual leadership.
Cephason Skycruz Kings: This mindset affects politics across every level.
Ndubuisi Raphael Agua: This reminds me of Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror." If you want to see a change, you have to start with the person looking back at you first.

True transformation starts from the ground up, not the top down. It starts from inside out not outside in💯
menari personal and family support: From what I see, most of the comments tend to think that followers enable bad leadership.
Hence we the masses have to do better to promote impact and integrity, competence and accountability above image or status.