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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said oil and gas can no longer feed Nigeria, considering the nation’s growing population.

Obasanjo disclosed this at the weekend, when the leaders of the apex socio-cultural group in Tiv land of Benue State, Mzough U Tiv (MUT) paid him an appreciation visit at his OOPL Penthouse residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

According to a statement made available to DAILY POST by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo charged Nigerians to see the country as being for all, “to save it and restore it to what God has created it to be.”

Obasanjo declared that “only farming and agric business can tackle the nation’s growing population.”

He reiterated that farming and agric business would be the only means to feed the nation, not oil.

The former president charged the Tiv people to focus on farming, stressing that he had put his arson on his farm in Benue behind him.

Obasanjo, who was conferred with the title of a “Great Warrior” of Tiv land by the socio-political group, said he would establish an industry in Benue next year.

Earlier in his words, the leader of the group, Iorbee Ihagh, had requested Obasanjo, among other things, to set up a fruit juice industry in Benue.

ElSudani:
Responsible and forward thinking leaders would have seen this forty years ago.
I would give you it ObJ and his crew for starting Ajaokuta and other steel mills in their attempt to industrialize Nigeria. But without uninterrupted supply of electricity industrialization was virtually impossible.

Ddensity:
I say a very BIG AMEN to this your pray.

festacman:
Point of historical correction. "Obj and his crew" didn't start Ajaokuta and other steel Mills. Former President late Shehu Shagari and his crew did with Ali Makele as Minister of Steel Development.

legionISproteus:
Oil can feed Nigerians, our terrible leaders are too greedy to let the rest of the population benefit from oil.

Just look at the ridiculous retirement package governors, Deputy governors, the president, vice president etc signed for themselves after leaving office. This does not include what they misappropriated while in office, yet Mr. OBASANJO has the gall to say oil can not feed Nigeria.

festacman:
Point of historical correction. "Obj and his crew" didn't start Ajaokuta and other steel Mills. Former President late Shehu Shagari and his crew did with Ali Makele as Minister of Steel Development.

Babachukwu:
This is why we want Obi to change Nigeria from consumption to production

legionISproteus:
Thank you for this wise correction.

Ajaokuta is a sad tale for Nigeria. It is a combination of greed from selfish leaders and international interests from world powers.

It was in the best interest of the USA and UK to see a failed Ajaokuta because it was a project undertaken by the defunct Soviet Union. They did not want am adversary to have any meaningful alliance with a former colony. Trust our selfish leaders to orchestrate the destruction of the project as that is what they do best, destroying the future of Nigerians.

Do you know how much influence Nigeria would have today if Ajaokuta Steel complex was fully operational?

I do not have the energy to discuss, I wish I did.

The biggest problem of Nigeria is bad leadership.

Babachukwu:
This is why we want Obi to change Nigeria from consumption to production