Rationale
In the last twelve years, Nigerians have seen how their hopes were raised and dashed. A country with a great potential, which has, in recent times, registered the enormous and unprecedented revenue, is degenerating by the day. Its development indices have continued to get poorer; the level of poverty has increased; deepening cynicism is accelerating institutional collapse; all these are pointing towards a frightening trend, a failed state.

Time and again we have been told that these are actually symptoms and the real disease is the decline, some would say, absence of leadership. The Muslim part of this country has had a long tradition of state formation and state administration, spanning some countries back. Even during the colonial period these infrastructures, experiences and skills were put to the service of colonial administration. In the immediate post independent period, the leadership values informed the first generation of the leadership, who have, on records, laid good foundations and built institutions, which gave this country the stability at home and the respect of its peers abroad.  More