To be a good leader, one has carry the people with him or her and not just parachute into top positions, said Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka.
He made the comments while speaking at the Australian Press Club in Canberra yesterday.
“The change from the coup leader to the leader I am now, I would not be the leader I am now if I hadn’t been the coup leader,” he said.
“That repentive attitude and outlook on life and the hurts I caused in 1987 have made me the leader I am now battling out for reconciliation and getting the nation together again.”
“Perhaps the way to do it in places like China, where you carry the people with you and not just parachute into top positions.”
“Perhaps that is the way I have come about to be at national leadership at this time.”
“I crashed into leadership in 87, realized how wrong it was, realized how many people we had hurt, realized who had turned away from us and who stayed with us.”
