Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday lamented the
state of the nation, saying that many Nigerians are “disillusioned and
hopelessly frustrated.”
He equally hinted that Nigeria ought to have ceased to exist owing to “many mistakes that have been made, but God did not allow such calamity to befall the country”.
Obasanjo spoke yesterday at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential
Library (OOPL), Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, when the governorship candidate of
the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Gboyega Nasiru Isiaka, was
formally presented to him alongside other candidates of the party ahead
of the 2019 elections.
According to him, God did not create Nigeria to be a failed
country, rather one of the leading countries among comity of nations.
The Ota-farmer said the country still lags behind other developed
nations because of the “conscious and unconscious choice of the people
of Nigeria.”
Obasanjo said, “some people are hopelessly frustrated and when I
see people like that I tell them – don’t be frustrated because of the
situation in the Nigeria. Otherwise, we have made many mistakes in this
country that Nigeria should have ceased to exist, but that has not been
our lot. That has not been our situation, we thank God for that”.