I have always wondered why in Nigeria, almost every national problem is always looked at from a narrow angle of economics and money. I hope someone will enlighten me but read through my point first.

In 1980s when Taiwan was making efforts to become a technological hub, they went to a company in the US called Texas Instruments to a high-ranking and brilliant engineer in the firm by name Morris Chang who happened to be Taiwanese, and convinced him to come back to build a world class semi-conductor company in Taiwan. The company is today known as TSMC and is the largest semi-conductor manufacturing company in the whole wide world. Chang himself recruited one Robert Hu. Anyone who has ever taken a course in Advanced Semiconductor Electronics will know this guru. He is regarded as the father of 3-D transistors.
The Premier of Taiwan then, Sun Yun-Suan saw a need to industrialize his country. He did not go about looking for IMF or World Bank economic policies to achieve that. Instead, he went for technological gurus and today, Taiwan is swimming in ocean of prosperity.

This brings me to the point I'm trying to make. In Nigeria, we have four refineries that are moribund. We have a power sector that's struggling. These are the main issues that have been identified as militating against our development as a country. What I would have expected of our leaders, if they are truly visionaries, is to scout the world, looking for the biggest names in refinery management and power sector to lead these two industries. And i don't mean as ministers but as heads of targeted parastatals.

For example, what Tinubu as President within the first week should have done is to fire the four heads of our refineries, along with the GMD of NNPC. Also, the head of NERC and TCN will be expected to take a bow. Then he should go look for the best hands, who may not necessarily be Nigerians but if so better and, throw them the challenge to get the comatose infrastructure back to life.
I usually wonder why when our presidents assume office, they start tinkering with CBN or Finance as if an Economic policy can conjure up prosperity. I seriously beg to differ. I've not seen an economist build a world-class company from scratch. That is the forte of innovators, creators and specialists in fields of technology who can produce something beneficial to the populace.

I may be wrong, but I really will like to know why the scenario of Taiwan above never applies to Nigeria. Instead, what we have is meaningless soundbites like, government has no business with business. Hello! TSMC was govt sponsored and owned. So was Huawei, ZTE, Samsung, Saudi Aramco etc.

Which brings me to my topic. Why do Nigerian leaders love to apply agbo jedi to cancer?

First you need to know what you're doing. They clearly don't

One word: Corruption.

In this part of the world, winning an election is just an avenue to be on top of the sharing formula and answering his excellency, nothing more really.

In Nigeria, people seek leadership positions for self-aggrandizement. Mark my word, Nigeria can only go from bad to worse.