In his book, The Trouble with Nigeria, Professor Chinua Achebe established a nexus between good leadership and the realization of the aspiration for national development. He says if we are able to solve this all-important problem, all else shall fall into place. The late M.K.O. Abiola was an impressive speaker who insisted, always, that leadership was the key to the resolution of the contradictions in the polity and often used a compelling proverb to illustrate the point that “a fish that is rotten starts smelling from the head.”