Olusegun Obasanjo's Legacy

I believe that second only to the success of telecommunications via GSM, the next best thing OBJ did was to bring in the IPPs. To me it really doesn't matter if it yielded fruit during his administration or not. As long as between the end of this year and 2010, the power problem is solved and we provide excess power within Nigeria that we can even export and make some extra non-oil foreign exchange too.

I think people like Earnest Ndukwe, and Chukwuemeka Chikelu, Dora Akunyili should be brought in as Ministers in their areas of specialization. Soludo for sure. What about that Haz Iwendi guy for police IG? The guy has good PR skills. Then of course Ribadu and El Rufai.

If we can get hold of Phillip Emeagwali, in any of our technologically driven ministries then Naija is on fast forward.

Generally, more Ibos in the Ministries.   

We have not seen anything yet!   OBJ has killed Nigeria (X1000)   I say Abacha and Babangida could not have reeked such havoc on Nigeria put together! The problems OBJ has caused for Nigerians we are yet to experience!  See Nigerians suffering with the last decisions OBJ made without transparency.  Y'ardua does not know what he has inherited!  OBJ, OBJ, OBJ! Na God go purnish you!  Keep selling Nigeria to Dangote and Odetola!

Nice sound byte, but this is very far from the truth. Every regime ushers in its own new millionaires and
billionaires, what is so different and unique about Dangote and Otedola? If you were not born in the
late 80s or 90s, I am a bit surprised at your claim that Dangote came out of nowhere!

I say amen to hiring mostly capable hands to fill this new cabinet.

However, I wouldn't say Igbo cabinet, because that will open a different type of discussion.

Once again, we need to see naija government cabinet as a sinking boat sailing to a historical legacy. Subsequently, we need only capable hands in the boat, not dead weights that could sink the boat.

Power outage can be rectified in a matter of weeks if aggressive and money-making companies are brought into place, see todays news about naija power problem.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/21062007/news/news4.html

Bringing in private companies would ultimately yield millioniares and trillionaires (like in Russia), most people like me would rather pay a little more for power than have no power at all.

We should welcome our millionaires, and hold them readily accountable for the failure of their companies in the future.

@mauogbuji

Good luck job hunting. I'm not anywhere close to Africa, so my assistance is ltd.

This is the link to the story
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=81518

lageacy ma ass

@dayokanu

that's my point bro.

How come this Makoju guy just came out, speaking like he had nothing to do with power for the past 8 years.

I just keep wondering why is he not in jail (if OBJ was truly sabotaged), and why is he going around the new government trying to postpone our full realization of sufficient power to the next 8 years or more.

Why don't we see this problem?

color]gratefully i appreciate u guy's-(najiaking and papabrowne) u've both started and contributed wonderfully to this topic,but sincerely i agreed with papabrowne points the more.
people usually pretends not to see  the good things that nice guy's like Obasanjo has done compare to what Nigerians expect from him,which i guess is not possible to please all-- as our wants are not equal,even if they sight any--that they use in criticizing against the fellow,WHY Nigerians? please we all need to start acknowledging each individual better contribution to-wards the forward growing of our great country
on the issue of leaving legacy behind to be remember of in 8-20-30yrs.i think this can only be achieve out of pride and after one's existence away from power as i have said Man don't tend to appreciate one another.

Dangote has been a multi-millionaire from the mid-eighties. Even under Abacha & Abdusalam Abubakar, he was the nation's largets importer of rice and sugar. Then he turned to wheat. He was also a big-time importer of cement until he discovered that it would be far cheaper for him to set up cement factories, instead of paying through the nose to import the stuff. The Dangote family is closely related to the Dantata family, who are also multi-millionaire merchants, in the North. Them current head of the Dangote empire, Aliko Dangote has leveraged on his connections with the previous regimes in power, in order to expand his business empire and even influence government policies. In the past, certain items were banned which turned out to be a blessing in disguise for him.

As for Femi Otedola, he got into the oil business in 1991/2. Using miltary connections from retired generals, he went into the downstream sector of the petroleaum marketing business and carved a niche for himself. The terrain he chose was still unexplored, and had very few players. So he was one of the first indigenous business men to set up a tank farm or petroleum products depot, to import and sell fuel to the public. Initially, he started with diesel (AGO) and has now branched out to kerosene (DPK) and other products. He has been able to make a strong mark within such a short time, because he has vast connections both within the political class and the military, (since his father was a former governor of lagos state), and also because he chose an area of business with few competitors. From ownership of a petroleum depot, he has branched out into shipping and now onwns four ships, MT sir Michael Otedola, MT Lady Doja, MT Nana and MT Zenon Conquest, etc.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2004/10/30/20041030cov01.html

Despite all these achievements, I still believe our government made a major mistake in selling our vital refineries to them. The new owners could choose to refine our nation's crude in their refineries, and then sell it a cost that is way beyond the reach of the masses. Or they could choose to refine their products, and export it all, by claiming they have a better market overseas. It is called enterprise.

The government should have allowed private refineries to be set up, alongside the existing govt-owned ones, and then competition would have taken care of the whole issue, like it did in the case of telecoms.

Did Mandela's head not function properly?

Getting to specifics how many of these plants are located in restive areas or which communities are restive is it Omotosho, Papalanto, Geregu, or those ones located in the North even those in the South South just 3 states are restive Bayelsa, Rivers and Delta. Or when did Cross river, Akwa Ibom join restive communities.

We Nigerians are well aware of their tactics imagine  a hopeless ruler blaming sabotage? where does sabotage not occur in the world? and how are their visionary rulers able to conquer it. Akunyili of NAFDAC does she not have saboteurs? They even made an attempt on her life but that did not deter her work.

Hopeless and visionless OBJ

@denex
Yes, i want u to sample the user of the GSM phone, out of every 20 users two will often credit the line one to three time a week, thank God that the era of 3months without crediting ur line had gone, the statistics is a fluke if u don't know.

Well OBJ had not done nothing, go to USA and see how mobile operator are operation without much pain on the user

@spaceworld

I don't get what you're saying about the whole crediting phone thing.

By the way, in America, mobile phones are still for the well to do. Here in Nigeria, the guy that cut the grass in my compound owns a mobile phone and when it's time for people to cut the grass in their compounds, they can reach him. So I don't understand what you're sending me to America for.

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folanusi