https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXLxcvCuDP0

Obasanjo said it just like me. Libya served as a buffer between extremism and tolerance while Gaddafi was able to maintain a developing country very much like Dubai of today which haboured Africans of different ethnicities.

Why Gaddafi Won African Leader Of
The Year - ARC
May 20 , 2010 • By
The Africa Renaissance Coalition has given reasons for
picking President Muammar al -Gaddafi of Libya as the
African Leader of the Year 2009 out of 52 heads of state
and leaders of the countries in the continent .
Though it agreed that Gaddafi and his country do not practice
true democracy , it maintained that of all the leaders , he is the
one that has brought good governance to the people.
The coalition further said the Libyan leader is well accepted by
the citizens of his country as against what obtains in other
parts of the continent.
Speaking at the unveiling of the award, Sina Odugbemi , a
senior official of the coalition, said that Gaddafi was able to
bring governance down to the grassroots .
Apart from free education and effective medical system ,
Odugbemi , who said he had visited the country to personally
observe how leadership is practised there , said no couple is
homeless in the country .
â €œOnce you have your marriage certificate , you are entitled
to a three -bedroom apartment . Gaddafi has built .
â €œWhile driving around Tripoli, the countryâ €™ s capital , I
saw sky scrapers and when I enquired , I was told they are
being built for the future generation . Nobody is homeless in
that county.
â €œFor those who do not have jobs , there are places where
they can go and get food . Their fuel price , when their money
is converted to naira, is only N 30 per litre. So why should he
not win the award? â € he asked .
After the initial screening, Odugbemi said, former President
Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, John Kuffor of Ghana and
Gaddafi were left. Gaddafi won while Kuffor and Obasanjo
came second and third respectively .
The criteria for the award included delivery of good things of
life to the common man, housing, shelter . â € œIn that country ,
people live in free houses , we want to live in free houses in
Nigeria even if not entirely free, it should be highly subsidised .
â €œWe have national identity cards which we cannot use for
anything , but in some other countries , the cards help you
access good things .
â €œWe are throwing a challenge at these faceless African
leaders who refuse to know that the 21 st century is one of
challenges . â €
He urged Nigerians to rise up to challenge their leaders to
deviate from their ways , which he said, have not been of help
to the people.
The award is to be conferred on the Libyan leader in July this
year.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/05/20/why-gaddafi-won-african-leader-of-the-year-arc/

Former President Obasanjo has said the Libyan
revolution that ousted long-time leader Mu’ammar
Ghaddafi let loose trained militants and weapons that
found their ways into Nigeria, fuelling the Boko Haram
insurgency.
In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation
radio and television aired yesterday, Obasanjo said also that
the rise of the insurgency could be linked to bad leadership.
“There is an element of that,” he said when asked if bad
leadership contributed in propping up the sect.
“There is an internal element, which you have
mentioned—inadequate education in the North, or in
fact inadequate education generally in the country,
inadequate employment opportunities in the country, all
that are part of what, if you like, is remote cause of
Boko Haram as far as I am concerned.
“But then there are also external elements. Now, the
fallout from Libya, which of course as a result what
happened in Libya, those that have been trained in Libya
in the time of Gaddafi from other countries who are
neighbors of Libya, when Gaddafi fell they moved out.
They moved out with their training, their weapons and
they started to wreak havoc on the communities in
which they have moved out to. And that is the situation
in northern Mali,” he added.
When asked if he meant there was a connection
between the overthrow of Ghaddafi and the Boko
Haram insurgency, the killing of the US ambassador in
Libya on Tuesday and the instability in northern Mali,
Obasanjo replied: “There is connection.”
He said those who masterminded the fall of Ghaddafi, as
well as the whole of Africa, have already started paying a
price for that.
“And we know that there will be a price to pay in the way
that it all went in Libya. At the end of the day all of us in
Africa, and all those who masterminded the way it
happened will have to pay a price, and we are now paying
the price,” Obasanjo said.
He said the Arab Spring was celebrated too early, as there
are always consequences of violent overthrow of leaders.
“Now it was too early to shout ‘uhuru’ with the Arab Spring,
and some of us said that. That look, what will be the final
outcome of this? Let us wait and see. When you have
violence and violent overthrow of regimes you do not know
exactly what the final outcome will be.”

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/other-sections/lead-
stories/176786-ghaddafis-fall-fuelled-boko-haram-obasanjo