You better earn it!!!

I take great exception to the notion that has been peddled around to the effect that, if you come from a family where your father or relatives once occupied a leadership post, you automatically take after them in all sense of the word. There is no concrete biological prove that leadership is a trait that can easily be passed on. While there are instances where a son/daughter could inherit their fathers/family empire and manage it skillfully and successfully, when it comes to leadership, and more so political leadership, one has to display attributes beyond biological ties. Great leaders of the world emerged from nowhere as it were and had to rise up from scratch despite the prevailing circumstances and in most cases without the help from their relatives. Talk of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi among many others. All these folks have one thing in common. They had a passion in whatever they believed in and they pursued it with gusto with the commitment of a monk. This did not come cheaply. Most of these people paid huge costs for their believes. Luther King was assassinated while Mandela was imprisoned in Robben Island for many years because of their believes.
What am trying to say here is that, to become a leader, one has to be prepared to pay the price. Am not saying here that one has to be imprisoned or God forbid, assassinated. What am simply trying to put across is there is a price tag attached to everything. There are no silver platters here. You have to understand not just the price, but most importantly the cost to be incurred.
You have to earn it!