A former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday, lamented the state of disunity in the country saying that this is one flaw that has hindered the country from achieving greatness and being the leading light of the entire black race.
Obasanjo said that despite the uninspiring situation of things in the country, he remains an incurable optimist about things turning around for good for the country “as long as we can look back as a country and correct the mistake of the past.”
The former President blamed regionalism as practised before obtaining independence in Oct 1960 as the foundation of the country’s prolonged lack of cohesion explaining that “the truth is that at independence, Nigeria emerged with three leaders and so it is a situation of three countries in one ever since.”
Obasanjo disclosed this when he received the 20-member delegation of League of Northern Democrats led by the former governor of Kano…