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…says Nigeria won’t work unless there is a change of attitude
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday warned that the Country is moving towards a total collapse if leaders and the governed, including the three arms of government, namely the executive, the legislature and the judiciary didn’t change their ways.
Obasanjo, who stated that the country wouldn’t move close to achieving her goals except the citizens, both the led and leaders embraced what he termed “moral rearmament”, decried the appalling situation of the Country for taking
two steps forward, one step aside and four steps backwards.
He however warned that the country would be sitting on a keg of gunpowder that could explode anytime if Nigeria failed to take courageous and decisive steps to address her several political, socio-economic and ethnic challenges.
Speaking while receiving six members of the House of Representatives in Abeokuta, who were co-sponsors of bills on a single term of six years, rotation of presidency between the North and the South as well as rotation of governorship slot among the three Senatorial districts of each of the 36 States, Obasanjo submitted that it would be wrong for those in Government to continue to enjoy while it would be telling suffering masses to be patient.
BusinessDay reports that the lawmakers in the entourage included Abdulmalik Danga from Kogi State; Usman Midala from Borno State; Matthew Nwogu from Imo State; Peter Aniekwe from Anambra State; Kama Nkemkanma from Ebonyi State and Ugochinyere Ikenga from Imo State.
The former president also regretted that the succeeding Government had not built on the foundation he laid while he was in power, saying that that had also caused myriad drawbacks for the Country.
He said, “More than anything else such as changing our system of government, moving to a single term of six or four years, we must change our ways of doing things in this country, we must decarbonise our brains, we must change our mentality and characters
“How I wish that the succeeding governments are building on the foundation we laid even if not so fast as one would have wanted it but sadly the blocks we put there are even being removed
“What I Know about Nigeria is that yes, if we get it right, the leadership, the team because one tree does not make a forest, you need a good leader but you also need a good team for the well-done job.
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