Obasanjo said all these on Tuesday in Ibadan, while reviewing the
history of Nigeria as a keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Ibadan
Sustainable Development Summit by the Centre for Sustainable
Development, University of Ibadan, and African Sustainable
Development Network.
Former President Olusegun Obsanjo has a strong message for us.
“We had some people who were under 50years in leadership
positions. One of them was James Ibori, where is he today?
One of them was Alamieyeseigha, where is he today? Lucky
Igbinedion, where is he today?
“The youngest was the Speaker, (Salisu) Buhari; you can
still recall what happened to him. You said Bola Tinubu is your
master. What Buhari did was not anything worse than what
Bola Tinubu did.
“But in this part of the world some people covered up the
other man. The man claimed he went to Government College,
Ibadan but the governor (Oyo State) went to Government
College and packed all the documents so that they would not
know that he did not go there.
“I wanted someone who would succeed me so I took Atiku.
Within a year, I started seeing the type of man Atiku is.
"And you want me to get him there?
“I once went to Tanzania because Julius Nyerere recognised
Biafra. He told me not to mind his aides and others in
government. They would say they have one house in town
but their five year old sons and daughters would have
houses all over.
“Some of you who are condemning the leadership would get
there tomorrow and it will be a different story. Only very
few are actually good.
“Abacha, my predecessor got $750m. Through our lawyer
in Switzerland we recovered $1.25bn and the lawyer still
said there is probably still another $1bn to be recovered. In
1979 we had 20 new ships specially built for Nigeria. When I
came back 20 years after, the national shipping line had
liquidated.
“The whole thing is not just about leadership. If we talk
about good leadership you should also talk about good
followers. If you talk about human right you should also talk
about human duties and obligations.
“It is sad that after 53years of independence we have no
leader that we can commend. The problem in Africa is that
when one person takes over he would not see any good
thing that his predecessor did. Let us condemn but with
caution,”
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