Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has again attributed Nigeria’s under-performance to the problem of leadership.

Speaking when he granted audience to a PDP Presidential Aspirant, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Thursday, the ex-President, however, said that he had not lost hope because God had blessed Nigeria with men and women of caliber who can stand their own in the world.

Chief Obasanjo, after listening to the speeches of Turaki and Boni Haruna (DG Kabiru Tanimu Turaki Campaign Organization), said “we are not short of leadership that can perform”.

The former President, who recalled that he consulted widely in 1998/1999 just as Turaki is doing now, revealed that he accepted to be drafted into the presidential campaign because of the need to unite the country.

“Listening to you, I believe you have got the concerns of Nigerians today in the area of security, economy and cohesion. Anybody who will lead Nigeria to the promised land will have my support,” Obasanjo said.

He condemned the siege laid to the residences of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, saying that was “embarrassed” by a number of things happening in the country.

“We are in a position to do better than what we are doing today”, he said.

Obasanjo further noted that what Turaki had been doing is to firm up and stabilize Nigeria’s democracy which, he believed is making some progress.

He explained that the statement he issued in January was not done frivolously, noting that a nation can be destroyed not necessarily when people are doing bad things but when people keep quiet when danger looms.

In his remark, Turaki who described Obasanjo as the ‘Father of Modern Nigeria’, said that it is people like him who speak truth to power that are working assiduously for a united country.

The aspirant stressed that there is need to take up the challenge of rescuing Nigerians from the plethora of problems such as insecurity, poverty, divisiveness and hopelessness confronting them today.

He said that with the support of respected leaders like Obasanjo “we know that we would be able to rescue our country as we have no other place to go.”

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Baba has spoken once again....

Truth be told, i admire OBJ when it comes to calling a spade a spade and he doesn't care who's ox is gored by telling the truth to the power that be.

Obasanjo hypocrite at it again...you that Wikipedia said that former senate president Okadigbo died under your directives by gasing him in Kano at a rally 12 hrs before his death? You that went over every senate president under your government from Ewerrem to Okadigbo, to Wabara, to Anyim to Nnanami, you destroyed every one of them. Shall we all go to the House of Rep. where you almost strangled that young speaker N'abba and his deputy Nwuche. Shall also include Masari that resisted your third term? Go and sit down my friend your hands are not clean!

Look at this old man who is part of the reasons were experiencing this level of pain... leaders who have failed us woefully... now doing anything to get attention and stay relevant... politicians!!! Take them serious at your own peril

Genhenry01:
Look at this old man who is part of the reasons were experiencing this level of pain... leaders who have failed us woefully... now doing anything to get attention and stay relevant... politicians!!! Take them serious at your own peril

oga life is not like that o that he failed like u feel doesn’t mean he can’t proffer advise and solutions to our problem

"OBJ condemned the siege laid to the residences of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, saying that was “embarrassed” by a number of things happening in the country".
It was the worst 13th Century Strategy of a Government in this 21st Century!!!
Why should any human organisation take such a primitive stone-age actions in this 21st Century? What was Buhari trying to prove? That noone in Nigeria knew better? Well Saraki has just proved himself a better strategist!!!

My only problem is that it is coming from obasanjo.