Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that Nigeria right now, is a land flowing with bitterness and sadness and that that is not what God wants this country to be.
Obasanjo stated this on Thursday as he was giving a book titled, ‘The Man, The General, and The President,’ written by Femmy Carrena, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The former President begged Nigerians to emulate some prominent citizens that are doing well at the international level like Akin Adesina, Benedict Oramah, Mohammed Barkindo, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Amina Mohammed
He said “My prayer is that all of us will have something to contribute to making this country what God has created it to be – a land flowing with milk and honey.
“Right now, it is a land flowing with bitterness and sadness; that is not what God wants this country to be.
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“We must change the narrative; we must talk to ourselves in the civilised language.
“There is nowhere you go in this country that you will not see geniuses in any section of the country. So, why should we look down on ourselves?”
He also said: “We have Akin Adesina running the African Development Bank (AfDB); we have Benedict Oramah running the Afrexim Bank; we have Mohammed Barkindo running the OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries); we have my sister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, running the WTO (World Trade Organisation), and we have Amina Mohammed who, I think celebrated her 60th birthday yesterday or the day before yesterday, who is number two in the United Nations (UN).
“These are things that should give hope and encouragement for the future.
“And each of these people that I have mentioned, are doing fantastically well. We have even at the AU (African Union), Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, who had just taken over as the Commissioner for Political Affairs & Peace and Security (PAPS) of the AU.
“So why are they doing well there and here we are not doing well? Something must be wrong! We should be interrogating this; we should ask then what should we do?
“What we should do is put our house in order, and we can put our house in order.”
