By SIMON EBEGBULEM


BENIN CITY – FORMER President, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo Friday said the immediate
past President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan should
be blamed for his actions and in-actions
while in office and not those who helped him
into office.

He asserted that the idea of people like him
in 2010 was to ensure that a person from the
minority zone is given the opportunity to rule
the nation which led to the support he gave
to Jonathan, adding however that the former
President’s actions in office and his
subsequent defeat at the polls will hunt the
people of the South South for a long time.

The former President also urged President
Muhammadu Buhari to use education to
sustain the progress made so far in the war
against Boko Haram, just as he attributed the
scourge in the North East to poverty and lack
of education among the youths which he
attributed to the alleged refusal of governors
in the North East to pay their counterpart
funds when his administration established the
Universal Basic Education (UBE), which
according to him would have given children
in their area to opportunity to enjoy free and
compulsory education.

Chief Obasanjo stated this while delivering a
lecture entitled “Effective Education, a
Panacea for Societal Development and
Transformation”, at the 11th convocation
ceremony of the Benson Idahosa University
(BIU), Benin City.

The former President who was told to defend
himself on the allegation that he was part of
the alleged failure of President Jonathan in
office, since he backed him for the presidency
in 2011, asserted that “I have also said that
you can help anybody to get a job but you
cannot help him to do it. Let us get it clear,
there is nobody who has got into any
position who has not been helped by one
person or more than one person.

“To become Nigeria’s head of state, it was
first of all my performance in the war front,
now if General Gowon had not sent me to the
war front, you won’t know whether I can
perform or cannot perform. Now he sent me
to the war front, I thank him for it and
because I performed we shared the credit, if I
had failed, Gowon would not have shared the
credit, he would not have shared the
condemnation with me, I will be alone.

“Yes as I have said, I believe that opportunity
that afforded itself in 2010 for somebody
from the minority to become the president of
Nigeria, he should never lose the opportunity
but what he did with it is entirely to him and
don’t forget what he did or did not do with
it, will reflect for a long time on that part of
the country. And don’t take that lightly, what
he did or did not do with it, will reflect for a
long time on that part of the country. But
again those blaming me, was I the only
person that supported him?

“I was not the only 18 million voters who
voted for him. You that asked the question
who did you vote for, is it not Jonathan? He
queried (General laughter in the hall).
While expressing confidence that President
Buhari will crush the Boko Haram menace,
Chief Obasanjo hinted that it was the major
reason the President was traveling to the
United States next week, to seek the
assistance of President Barack Obama to
tackle the menace head on.

While attributing the problem to poverty,
unemployment and lack of education,
Obasanjo stressed the need to provide
compulsory education in the North East and
re-orientate the people of the area on the
need tackle the Boko Haram insurgency whole
heartedly.

His words: “Education is a moral enterprise
which we need to re-engage, the issue of
Boko Haram President Buhari should also
tackle it from the angle of morale education,
if we are able to tackle boko haram with
education in our schools, both in the social
media that they use, we will dilute their
messages and positively win their hearts and
others who have been swayed by the jihadists
messages.

“To succeed with counter messages, we need
to be more appealing, and truthful and as
intense as those of boko haram if not more.
The capacity of all teachers would be
strengthened to deliver such messages;
morning and afternoon assemblies of our
primary and secondary schools should have a
strong dose of such messages, our airwaves
and social media should also be saturated
with such positive messages even if we defeat
boko haram on the battle front, we need
education to sustain the victory.
“Let me give you an insight, in 2010 there
was a survey of education in Nigeria and
among the six geo political zones; in the
south west, it was 79 per cent that are
educated, in the south east, it is about 78 per
cent in the North East, where boko haram
dominates, it is 19 per cent and that is one of
the reasons people believe that boko haram
was a menace waiting to happen and it
doesn’t matter what we do, we have to
reverse that trend maybe the situation has
even gone worse in the last five years
because people have moved out of school
some schools have been destroyed and we
cannot fold our arms and say it is up to the
North East.

“it is up to all of us in Nigeria, we have to do
what should be done to bring parity in the
area of education across the length and
breadth of the country. The boko Haram
insurgency is serious problem which we pray
will be a thing of the past soon. There are
several factors into the insurgency, I am sure
that President Buhari will do the needful to
exterminate this scourge.

“That is one of the reasons President Buhari
is traveling to the US next week to secure the
support of the American Government to fight
terrorism in Nigeria. As we tackle it from the
military front and other angles, we should
also tackle it through the power of education
which is what you have asked me to talk
about today” he stated

source: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/jonathan-actions-inactions-in-office-will-hunt-ssouth-for-long-obasanjo/

Hmm.
No need blaming Jona.
Lets just move on..dis bokos will be a thing of the past very soon.

... *sips zobo *...

Ok

Obasanjo, the monkey from the cave of Abeokuta.
I hail you sir.

The vindictive son of destruction called Obj cannot afford to swallow the fact that GEJ called his bluff when he thought he mattered most.

And to make matters worse, he has no stake in the current govt despite screaming himself hoarse during the campaigns.

Even in the SW, the same Tinubu he loves to hate has more sway than he does in the scheme of things.

And all of a sudden, he realises how powerless and inconsequential he has become despite his intrigues....... all because one certain GEJ he assumed he had in his pocket put him where he belong.

GEJ is out of power, So is Obj. As usual his rants will never end.

Him wey him knack daughter in law akpako nko? The taboo will haunt him from generation to generation.

Okay

baba agba pls act Ur age!

OBJ we are proud our son GEJ set a democratic agenda in Nigeria.
Well before long we may also have our own nation state.
Nigeria has expired.

He has done a lot for S/South.