The Route to Power in Nigeria: A Dynamic Engagement Option for Current and Aspiring Leaders

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Leadership-Governance-Development Nexus: Separating Coincidences from Correlations....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Values, Vision, and Leadership in a Diverse Society: A Review of Nigeria’s Environmental Engagement Challenges....Pages 19-38
Leadership Selection, Governorship, and Development: The Institutional Dimension....Pages 39-61
Role of Civil Society in Leadership Recruitment and Renewal....Pages 63-83
Soft Choices in a Hard Environment: Meeting Post-Independence Governorship Challenges....Pages 85-97
Engaging the Environment from the Macro-Economic Angle: Economic Management after Independence....Pages 99-123
Balancing Domestic Welfare Needs With External “Conditionalities”: Leadership Engagement with the People and the International Environment....Pages 125-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Civility in the Lion’s Den: Leadership Selection and Retrenchment in the First Republic....Pages 147-162
Leadership as an Imposition: the Military Shortcut to Power....Pages 163-193
Enter the Fourth Republic: Another Shot at Dynamic Engagement or a Return to Neo-Military Governorship?....Pages 195-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Visionary Leadership and Management of Uncertainty: A Summation....Pages 221-240
Back Matter....Pages 241-264