THE PACK LEADERS by OLAOYE GIDEON .A ( G1)

THE PACK LEADERS by OLAOYE GIDEON .A ( G1)

With profound reference to JUDE IDADA, he said :
" I once had a friend, who my father never liked"

In his speech in a National Conference held in Abuja ,dated 16th of May, 2015. He said in in his speech; my father met my friend once when he came with my other friends, for a Christmas party my father had thrown. At that time I couldn't understand his dislike, because we all loved this friend and would do anything for him.He was our world.I never knew my father had been watching us that day as we sat in a group, with this friend standing, having our own party while the older and even oldest ones partied in the bigger party that surrounded us.

My friend had promptly left when something someone had said rubbed him wrongly and the others followed. I attempted to also follow, but my father called me back at the gate.
"Where are you going to?" Not sure where, but my friend wants us to go somewhere.

He looked at me, in that way that laid bare your soul, then he sighed. You don't know where they are going but you are following them?
It was a rhetorical question.
And it showed clearly the foolishness of my action.
"You are all leaving because your friend is leaving right?"
At the time I was shocked as to the acuity of the statement. I nodded, he sighed and began one of his lectures, even as the live band played and the guests dined and danced.

"Jude, in every group of friends, there is always a pack leader. Be wary of him or her.For when they lead you up a mountain, it is either to show you greater fields to conquer or to actually gain enough height, so that when they throw you down, you will surely die.
That pack leader who uses the word "I" instead of "We" That pack leader who is always standing when everyone else is sitting.
That pack leader to whose place everyone congregates but hardly ever visits others. The pack leader who hands his favourable opinion of you like a reward for your favourable opinion of him. The pack leader who understands friendship only through the extent of strict obeisance to his intellectual dictates and conformity to his visual, aural, social and religious regimen.That pack leader who always wants the final say, no matter how brilliant the opinions that have been given before by others are. That pack leader who views "No" from his followers as an attack on his person and supremacy and then uses active and passive aggression as a counter punch to subjugate the one that dared say "No."

Greatest ife! Articulate Ife! If we must follow a pack leader, lets choose the pack leader wisely. Not by the use of your primal desires but by a well thought out assessment of his qualities and the reason why you need to follow him in the first place. And when we have chosen, lets trust the pack leader with healthy scepticism, but don't surrender ultimate control, for people change just like the seasons. Let's use our head and not our heart. Lets  be the friend of logic and reason like how we used to be in time past or  Why can't we ask ourselves the mischief behind our Alumni associating themselves with University Of Ife rather than Obafemi Awolowo University? Alas! Even the pack leader needs to be saved from the hubris of power.

That hubris that occurs when the leader believes through the conscious or unconscious collusion of the followers, that their power or authority exists unquestioned. For tyrants are not born they are created by the led. Time has passed and we still have more time to come, as we all know that we are the architect of our fortune, so I employ us to let this words ring in our brain and let's not repeat such subsequently. I ask you what is the objective of the union? As *G1* will have it  *its to guarantee the Security lives of properties, of great Ife students and provision of a sound Welfarism*

Its high time we started asking questions, let keep our leaders on their toes and start out on a new path. We all elected our friends, colleagues into HEC, CEC and SRC. Why not ask them for a report on the assignment given to them. If actions were not taking to recall Dino Melaye by his constituency, he will  continue to disgrace his people. Since the procedure for his recall was initiated, the man has been comporting himself and is now on his toes. If our representatives are not performing to expectation, recall them and let it be a lesson to others. In fact, it would deter unscrupulous person from contesting for elections. Its so disheartened that at 11th week of a new session, the welfarism of students is nothing to write home about. Their is no price regulation for transportation, the ones we have is not effective. Bus drivers extort students, they hold students to ransom, we have been experiencing epileptic power supply, the water we drink is various shades of brown, yet we are silent. Anyways welfarism is a topic for another day. How I wish we all can have a rethink and act as fast as possible. Till I'm privileged to address us again, I will like to step aside saying,
TOGETHER WE CAN.

OLAOYE GIDEON .A , popularly known as ( G1)