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Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Kingsley Moghalu, has described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo as arguably Africa’s preeminent statesman alive.

Moghalu also said Obasanjo has no regrets of his time in office as Nigeria’s president.

Posting on X, the former CBN deputy governor said Obasanjo does not shy away from expressing his views on any topic, be it global, continental or national.

Moghalu stated that the former President wished he was more decisive in the creation of a common currency for the Economic of West African States, ECOWAS.

He wrote: “Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo (“Baba OBJ”) is arguably Africa’s preeminent statesman alive today. He is also a man who is not shy to express his views on various topics – global, continental, national.

“OBJ has “no regrets” about his actions and decisions during his time in office as Nigeria’s leader.

“He only wishes, in hindsight in light in the fact that ECOWAS CEDEAO “is now in tatters,” that he had moved more decisively on the creation of the common ECOWAS currency the Eco, despite the challenges posed by misalignments in the “convergence criteria” for such a regional currency among member states (single digit inflation, a fiscal budget deficit of no more than 4%, deficit financing by central banks capped at 10% of annual revenues, and foreign reserves to cover 3 months imports).”

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/12/08/obasanjo-africas-greatest-statesman-alive-moghalu

True. Obasanjo is the next great Nigerian after Zik.

I can't think of a bigger...

Or better statesman!

Obasanjo is a detribalized Nigerian who chosed national interest over tribal sentiment.

Yes 100℅ correct✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅.
Baba is Ebora Owu in Abeokuta under the rock collecting Air conditioner

Nah Igbo man praise yoruba man yet agbadorians go still vex.

Yes 100℅ correct✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅.
Baba is Ebora Owu in Abeokuta under the rock collecting Air conditioner.
Baba really tried and can't be compared with the likes of last and present president.

Orlandoo:
True. Obasanjo is the next great Nigerian after Zik.

Zik?


E no go better for the person wey hide your medicine.

Obasanjo the father of Boko Haram

Obasanjo had the golden opportunity of nipping Boko Haram in the bud when insecurity was still in its infancy stage but he failed woefully.
Olusegun Obasanjo threw Nigeria into the mess we are today in terms of insecurity

adenigga:
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/12/08/obasanjo-africas-greatest-statesman-alive-moghalu

WHERE UNA GO PUT TINUBU Moghalu is spewing trash

Orlandoo:
True. Obasanjo is the next great Nigerian after Zik.

We dey talk about Nigerians this one dey talk about a mere receptionist.

Nnamdi Azikiwe as ceremonial president was basically a glorified receptionist or errand boy to the Prime minister Tafawa-Balewa because Nigeria was operating a parliamentary system at that time.

Obasanjo is who agbadorians wish Ebola to become.

Unfortunately he can’t.

I've always told people that OBJ isn't just a Nigerian leader. But Africa's as well. OBJ is "a big fish" in Africa and will remain a big name in Africa's history when the time comes to be in history. He is a great and decisive man indeed. He never gets pushed around and doesn't get perturbed in times of decision making

stuffs2002:
Obasanjo the father of Boko Haram

Obasanjo had the golden opportunity of nipping Boko Haram in the bud when insecurity was still in its infancy stage but he failed woefully.
Olusegun Obasanjo threw Nigeria into the mess we are today in terms of insecurity

Let them be praising him, Baba iyabo that doesn't want anybody to be greater or equal his record. Very greedy human being.

stuffs2002:
Obasanjo the father of Boko Haram

Obasanjo had the golden opportunity of nipping Boko Haram in the bud when insecurity was still in its infancy stage but he failed woefully.
Olusegun Obasanjo threw Nigeria into the mess we are today in terms of insecurity

How old are you? Because it seems you don't know when Biko Haram started and when they became violent.

stuffs2002:
We dey talk about Nigerians this one dey talk about a mere receptionist.

Nnamdi Azikiwe as ceremonial president was basically a glorified receptionist or errand boy to the Prime minister Tafawa-Balewa because Nigeria was operating a parliamentary system at that time.

You just called his name. Who is your father? You probably know Zik more than you know your father.

a soldier who tried to dodge deployment to the battle field by claiming he is an engineer not an infantry soldier and ended up claiming glory for the work others had done despite bungling the effort.

a soldier and 2nd in command who ran and hid in the house of a civilian (S.B. Bakare) when his boss was killed but was rewarded with the promotion as head of state.

a man who was scheduled to be killed within days only for his jailer to die and he become a civilian president.

the luckiest African...thats what he is

Redhot111:
I've always told people that OBJ isn't just a Nigerian leader. But Africa's as well. OBJ is "a big fish" in Africa and will remain a big name in Africa's history when the time comes to be in history. He is a great and decisive man indeed. He never gets pushed around and doesn't get perturbed in times of decision making

Nigeria would have been better if obj had succeeded in his third term agenda

Talking in the rubbish as usual.
These guys think that Obasanjo is in a position to help them politically. Obasanjo is a double edged sword. This man has a lot of blood in his hands. When I say a lot, I mean a lot.

Most of the people he killed during the aftermath of Dimkas coup were executed with backdated decrees. Harry Marshal? Dikiboh? Hundreds of MASSOB followers at Okigwe. Planes were falling off the sky like confetti during his term,so much so that Babangida had to ask Nigerians to ask Obasanjo about what was happening .

Dude was accused by his own son of sleeping with his wife! Let me not get into his tribal outbursts against the igbos when he was in power, which the likes of Muoghalu and Obi have conveniently swept under the carpet in the alter of political expediency!
Obasanjo is not my hero!

adenigga:
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/12/08/obasanjo-africas-greatest-statesman-alive-moghalu

Since he was instrumental in making you a deputy CBN Governor, then he has to be the best thing to you

searchlight:
You just called his name. Who is your father? You probably know Zik more than you know your father.

It still does not change the fact that Nnamdi Azikiwe as ceremonial president was basically a glorified receptionist or errand boy to the Prime minister Tafawa-Balewa

That election rigger He is not any statesman to me knowing fully well what he used Maurice Iwu to do back then..

Orlandoo:
True. Obasanjo is the next great Nigerian after Zik.

Zik who?

Mention one Zik Legacy, I mean something you see around that is Ziks creation...

Yes he is followed by Goodluck Jonathan

Redhot111:
How old are you? Because it seems you don't know when Biko Haram started and when they became violent.

You can lie to yourself all you want but the fact still remain that Boko Haram started under Obasanjo's government and he failed to do anything about it. Even Obasanjo himself came out on national TV to say he left them alone during his term as president yet you are still trying to tell a lie that will never be accepted because people can still remember.

stuffs2002:
Obasanjo the father of Boko Haram

Obasanjo had the golden opportunity of nipping Boko Haram in the bud when insecurity was still in its infancy stage but he failed woefully.
Olusegun Obasanjo threw Nigeria into the mess we are today in terms of insecurity

So what then happens after him?

Governance is continuum. Because BH is recorded to have started in his watch doesn't absolve successive government at stopping it. Rather, what we're seeing of recent is politicians using them as political tools to win elections.

It will remain a reckoning force as far as our political journey is now concerned.

CaptainFM1:
So what then happens after him?

Governance is continuum. Because BH is recorded to have started in his watch doesn't absolve successive government at stopping it. Rather, what we're seeing of recent is politicians using them as political tools to win elections.

It will forever be a reckoning force as far as our political journey is now concerned.

Go back and read my post. This time slowly so that you will comprehend.

A small fire is far more easier to put out while it is still small and no one would get hurt.
You don't wait until the fire gets to a huge blazing inferno before trying to put it out.

I will not reply you again because I am not responsible for your low comprehension

stuffs2002:
Obasanjo the father of Boko Haram

Obasanjo had the golden opportunity of nipping Boko Haram in the bud when insecurity was still in its infancy stage but he failed woefully.
Olusegun Obasanjo threw Nigeria into the mess we are today in terms of insecurity

If you voted Buhari in 2015, a man who boldly said AN ATTACKS ON BOKO HARAM is an ATTACK ON THE NORTH, it means you are worst than Obasanjo.


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MEGAWATCH:
If you voted Buhari in 2015, a man who boldly said AN ATTACKS ON BOKO HARAM is an ATTACK ON THE NORTH, it means you are worst than Obasanjo.


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fact still remain that the insecurity that we have today started under the failure called Obasanjo and we will hold him responsible for his failure

Lol
Is that so? Interesting...

stuffs2002:
fact still remain that the insecurity that we have today started under the failure called Obasanjo and we will hold him responsible for his failure

And you decorated it by voting a TERRORISTS organisation supporter.

Just remove the plank in your eyes first before removing the dust in your brothers eyes.

You didn't want to accept that you misbehaved by voting a calamity called Buhari.


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stuffs2002:
Obasanjo the father of Boko Haram

Obasanjo had the golden opportunity of nipping Boko Haram in the bud when insecurity was still in its infancy stage but he failed woefully.
Olusegun Obasanjo threw Nigeria into the mess we are today in terms of insecurity

No wahala Tinubu is the greatest Oloshi