₦airaland Forum

9jatriot:
Pairing Yar Adua and GEJ was his greatest undoing in terms of a successor plan but then what were his options? Odili was one of the hopeful, but to me not a good choice, Donald Duke was another hopeful, but being from the South, replacing another southerner was not going to work and Obj knew that.

Next was Atiku but he had fallen out of favor so Obj was not going to support him. I cannot remember who the nortrhers that were in conntensions were but for some weird reason, he went to recruit Yar Adua who was not even nursing any ambition and not particularly impressive as a governor. of Katstina state.

Biodun556:
https://leadership.ng/im-in-hurry-to-see-nigeria-rise-getting-close-to-my-departure-lounge-obasanjo/

Jeon:
So sad,can bear to lose such a great leader and a good man who cared/is still caring for a nation.


Rest on great-grandpa.

See on the other side.

Factcheck0001:
same obj that delayed the introduction of phones cos he believed it wasn't meant for the masses, it was too much pressure from the western world that make him finally succumb because Nigeria was their biggest target and they see a large market in us.

Same obj that had a deal with MTN that on every card u own, he has 1 naira deal whenever u use *555*1* to recharge?

Same man that enjoyed so much patronage and kickback from MTN that he never wanted them to have indigenous rival?

Glo was denied license for good 3 times after spending huge money, go n listen to adenuga n u will realize OBJ needs not b praised on these things cos he frustrated it

Biodun556:
https://leadership.ng/im-in-hurry-to-see-nigeria-rise-getting-close-to-my-departure-lounge-obasanjo/

Biodun556:
https://leadership.ng/im-in-hurry-to-see-nigeria-rise-getting-close-to-my-departure-lounge-obasanjo/

9jatriot:
Pairing Yar Adua and GEJ was his greatest undoing in terms of a successor plan but then what were his options? Odili was one of the hopeful, but to me not a good choice, Donald Duke was another hopeful, but being from the South, replacing another southerner was not going to work and Obj knew that.

Next was Atiku but he had fallen out of favor so Obj was not going to support him. I cannot remember who the nortrhers that were in conntensions were but for some weird reason, he went to recruit Yar Adua who was not even nursing any ambition and not particularly impressive as a governor. of Katstina state.

smallsmall:
Dubai Mall or Burg Khalifa or the Metro was not the priority for Nigeria during OBJ's time.

How do yo build a Burg Khalifa in a Country of 200Million People, with around 3,000MW of electricity?
How do you build a Metroline with such miserable level of electricity or are you going to power those things with 'air"?
A country that was reeling in debt should not be thinking of all those 'symbolic' projects.

What OBJ should have done, which current President still failed to do, is to start the building of Two Nuclear Power Stations, on ein the North, another in the South.
Forget the fear of 'Nuclear disaster', modern day Nuclear Power Plants are far much safer than the likes of Fujikima or Chernobyl.
Look at the Zaporitchia Nuclear Power Plant in Donbass, it is still functioning in the middle of a three year war, despite all efforts by terrorist Jewlensky of Ukraine, to contaminate the whole of Europe, by attacking it.

No Country in this World, has ever industrialized without stable and cheap source of Electricity, anyone can fact-check me.
And Nuclear Power is the cheapest and most reliable source of Power.
many African Countries are midway into the building of their own Nuclear Power stations right now (Egypt, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda,Tanzania, Morocco, Zambia), mostly assisted by Russia's Rosatom Energy.

Our Leaders can do far better than all the 'self-glorification' hand-outs they are currently doing but then, they cant give what they dont have.

Biodun556:
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he was in a hurry to see Nigeria attain its potential for greatness, stressing that he is now “getting close” to his departure lounge.

https://leadership.ng/im-in-hurry-to-see-nigeria-rise-getting-close-to-my-departure-lounge-obasanjo/

citizenisb:
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari may not do well in economy and foreign affairs, except in military matters.

“Buhari is not a very hot person on the economy and foreign affairs,” Obasanjo said.

The former President stated this on Monday at the third International Conference on African Development Issues — themed, “Driving inclusive and sustainable development in Africa: Models, methods and policies” — organised by Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State.

While reacting to a question posed to him by a member of the audience: “Is there any hope for Nigeria under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari?”, Obasanjo replied, “Is there any hope for Nigeria under this administration? I came back from Geneva, Switzerland a few days ago to attend a conference titled, ‘Are elections giving democracy a bad name?’ We had an election, we elected a leader and the good thing about democracy is that the power you have to elect a leader is also the power you have to remove him. I am saying this because I said earlier that if you don’t see any leader that has done well in the 56 years of Nigeria’s independence, then let us forget about Nigeria.

“I will tell you what I know and I will tell you what I don’t know. I know Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. He served under me in the military. His characteristics that I know, his behaviour that I know, he has not deviated from them. He was never a perfect man, he is not a perfect man and no leader can ever be a perfect man because they are human beings. But if you read my book, what I said about him is correct. He is not a hot person when it comes to economy. He is not a very hot person when it comes to foreign affairs. But he will do well in matters of military and he will do well in fighting Boko Haram.”


http://www.punchng.com/buhari-not-sound-economy-foreign-affairs-obasanjo/

DeOTR:
You missed the part where they spent $16billion on same electricity you said was of higher priority than Burj Khalifa?

Do you know what it means for $16b to vanish into thin air even in today's Nigeria and we're talking about a time when our nation budget was still under #5trillion annually

brain54:
That's right...


I was watching his podcast recently and couldn't help thinking the same.

Unfortunate he might never see Nigeria get better.

He was one of the greatest leaders Nigeria ever had though. I can see how passionately he sometimes speaks about a better Nigeria.

Dude did his best as president but somehow the trajectory of progress after his tenure was diverted by those after him. Instead of building on what progress was made under him

It's unfortunate we now find ourselves in the situation where we presently are in!

Factcheck0001:
who is the nemesis of same hopelessness?

Name one problem Nigeria is facing today n I will tell u how obj is the architect

I challenge u

occfx:
When you had the opportunity, you could not please, stop complaining and depart in peace.

DrAkpa:
How old are you kiddo ?

Kukutente23:
Kid said Yaradua was not impressive as gov of Katsina state
How much of Katsina state do you know?
But Tinubu was impressive as gov of Lagos with his agberos and jeun soke mantra abi
Kids sha

Kukutente23:
Kid said Yaradua was not impressive as gov of Katsina state
How much of Katsina state do you know?
But Tinubu was impressive as gov of Lagos with his agberos and jeun soke mantra abi
Kids sha

Middleborn:
You seriously think that Nigeria will be better?

Please, I'm here telling you not to even waste your time to expect Nigeria to be better. I'm not being cynical, I'm being totally realistic and honest.

The origin of the country dispels any hope that there will ever be a change for good. Unless the entire country is dismantled totally and smaller entities are built along interest-lines.

When the British came in from the south, they met villages and fishing camps. These villagers fought the British for years until the British partly subdued them and brokered a peace treaty with them. With every Riverine community they passed, they promised peace and no harm, they asked to be to be allowed to explore the land (they already knew the land was rich in oil and gas).

When the British explored farther inland, up to Lokoja, they met the Fulani who were also on a quest to conquer more territories. There was a small war, but the British soon noticed that the Fulani also were imperialists like them and all they wanted was to conquer and acquire, they also wanted to spread Islam to the territories down south until the Atlantic. The British bought the Royal Niger company and owned all the territories along the Niger and Benue Rivers.

Long story short, they Amalgamated Northern Nigeria with southern Nigeria. They knew that the Fulani's wanted the land and resources of the peoples in the south, they didn't obey the peace treaties they had signed with the riverine communities, they neither consulted the riverine communities and fishing camps they met on their way into Nigeria before the Amalgamation.

The British knew they would leave the territory but they developed a way to maintain control over the resources. Well guess what, they still control Nigeria, they only do it in a clandestine way, different from how the French did to Francophone countries under their watch.

So now we have a group of people in the south, east, middle and North who don't think that they are getting what they deserve from their ancestral land. They didn't even ask to be part of Nigeria, they had a life, religion and civilization taken away from them and now their lives are even endangered because their neighbors want to take their land and resources. There is also the British Kingdom who parasitically continues to live off Nigeria's resources and will never be sanctioned by the UN because they are the UN.

So now tell me where will the change come? You stand up to fight for your right, you are eliminated by the Nigerian government which country you did not even choose to join but was forced on you and you cannot reverse the decision, else you die. You lost all rights to your ancestral land and resources. Someone else from far away now owns the most valuable resources on your land.

Its not like you can go and file a complaint in the United Nation because they are also in it. You decide you are going to travel abroad and have a good life. Over there, you are racially discriminated, monitored cos by default you are looked at as a criminal, you are only on survival level as you have to do many jobs to just get by. Hardly can you become a millionaire. You cannot come back home because home is a jungle.

Now do you honestly think that the white man will allow Africa remove the cuffs from their hands and legs? They put the cuffs and they will make sure to replace it with stronger cuffs. You decide to go against the white man, they raise someone inside to eliminate you. We all do not have one voice, so we cannot all stand for one course.

So tell me again when you think Nigeria will change for the better.

Walai:
It's not in my nature to reply agbado miscreants but I have to do this for the interest of nairaland guests and for public enlightenment.
I have been privileged to have access to government houses and important government officials and I can tell you for free that Yar'adua is the best and most honest governor Nigeria have ever produced.
I witnessed Mbadinuju, Ngige and Peter Obi tenure in Anambra and whether you like it or not, PO is the best governor comparable only to Yar'adua.
Believe whatever you want to believe but FYI, I witnessed live the swearing in of OBJ in 1999 at Eagle square. I'm no kid

Fiscus105:
Check Nigeria economy before and after.

Check citizens welfare before and after, ( that would be if you old enough to understand it during military, and for the teachers, wen they bought cars most)

Check where he met power generation and where it ended it ( I will advise you to be neutral from useless political lies afterwards)

Check our savings before and after

Check security situation during his time compare to the rest.

Check how he distributed positions across the sections of the nation, compare to the rest.

Check the respect we got from international community compare to any govt in history. You can Google what he did in Sao Tome Principe and in Togo, compare it with how current president barked like toothless bulldog on Niger republic saga. I doubt if Ur age and brain large enough to know all these.

Make sure you do all these with pure mind.

kolente:
As a neophyte and biased minded person like you @Factcheck0001, I was directly acquianted with the roll-out and execution of the Telecoms reforms end-to-end.

The whole process of the Telecoms Reforms was from work-in-progress (WIP) to the stage it currently is and there is still no 100% user adoption all over Nigeria.

I repeat, Without Obasanjo's Privitisation Programme pursued sequencially the mobile phone you currently use to type this epistle wouldn't have been feasible.

Put some respect to that name Obj.

Factcheck0001:
pick someone like your father or mother right?

Image123:
Lol at OBJ in a hurry to see Nigeria attain its potential for greatness. What a classic joke.
He was president when UAE was building Dubai Mall, Dubai Metro, Burj Khalifa. He had 8 years as civilian president and about 3years as military president. He even lobbied a 3rd term. He and Atiku built personal farms, universities and other businesses instead and like Obi 'saved' money. Imagine your dad saving money when you were supposed to be in school.

dubai Metro started construction 2006.
Cost: ≈ US $7.6 billion

Burj Khalifa started construction 2004.
Cost: ≈ US $1.5 billion

dubai Mall started construction 2004.
Cost: ≈ US $1.2 billion

(Before you say maybe money no dey) Obasanjo government had committed approximately US $16 billion to electricity with nothing to show. You can guess where the money went.
It was the same period that they sold PHCN and NITEL. Please, don't tempt the truth.

kettykin:
May God in his infinite mercies pick you as I don't really see any worth of being online 24 hours and dragging people aimlessly

brain54:
You can prove Ghana must go flying around started with Obj...?

Besides whether or not it did. I never said his government was utopia. And you can never have a perfect government.

What I said was that his government made some progress that ought to have been built on by the governments that came after him. But the trajectory of growth and progress changed after him. His government surely had it's Shortcomings but he built a good foundation that could have been improved upon.

The trajectory for progress really changed significantly during Goodlucks government. Mainly due to corruption that went almost unchecked under him. And a lot of people see Jonathan as a weak leader. Buhari's government made a 360 degree turn from whatever little progress GEJ made. Let me stop here




In any case obj in spite of his short comings is one of the greatest if not the greatest Nigeria has had.

He was a good leader with the interest of the country at heart.

To me he is the last real leader Nigeria had. Yaradua's time was too short to judge him so I would say he was neither nor there!

zeuss:
Bad institutions and strong men is the foundation for a failed and failing society.

Jeon:
So sad,can bear to lose such a great leader and a good man who cared/is still caring for a nation.


Rest on great-grandpa.

See on the other side.