ALI MOHAMMED

18 MAR 2018

OLUSEGUN Obasanjo, former Nigeria’s President, has said there is nothing that can make the country collapse again.

Mr. Obasanjo stated this while reacting to insinuations in some quarters that he said the country will collapse if the incumbent president was re-elected.

The reports claimed that the former president made the comment in a speech at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, on Friday.

But the former president said aside from when he spoke on transformational leadership in Africa at Oxford University early January he had not even been to London again.

“I won’t and can’t say that (that Nigeria will collapse if Buhari is reelected).

“There will be nothing that will make Nigeria collapse. When Nigeria did not collapse under a civil war, it won’t collapse now, he said.

“My faith and conviction about Nigeria is so strong that I don’t see the country either being dismembered or collapsing.

“The worst has passed on Nigeria. Once we were able to survive the civil war, once we are able to survive (Sani) Abacha, nothing can be worst than those two. And our democracy is waxing strong. Although there are a few things we need to get right.

"As far I am concerned, the worst is over. What remains is for all of us and for our leadership to show good faith and commitment to do what is right. Then Nigeria will grow from strength to strength,” Premium Times quoted Obasanjo to have said from Azerbaijan where he is chairing a meeting of the InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and Government.

He also noted that there’s no form of misgovernance that will lead to the crumbling of the Nation.

“Don’t forget that Abacha did more than that. Of course Abacha’s regime was not a democracy, it was a military dictatorship. If we survived that, then we will survive any shenanigan against democracy. That’s the greatest advantage of democracy,” he added.

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