{"id":113249,"date":"2024-06-02T02:14:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T06:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/?p=113249"},"modified":"2024-06-02T02:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T06:14:44","slug":"nigeria-volatile-rife-with-hardship-obasanjo-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2024\/06\/02\/nigeria-volatile-rife-with-hardship-obasanjo-laments\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Volatile, Rife With Hardship \u2013 Obasanjo Laments"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo<\/a> has asserted that Nigeria was becoming more volatile, uncertain, complex and filled with suffering citizens.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

He pointed out that insecurity has turned the country into a perilous place, characterized by extensive suffering and hunger.<\/p>\n

For him, the leadership has to wake up to its responsibilities in other to create a better world for all Nigerians.<\/p>\n

He made these assertions in Lagos at the Africa Methodist Council Heads of Conference Summit and Women\u2019s Movement Leadership Summit, where he was the Chairman of the public lecture.<\/p>\n

The lecture\u2019s topic, presented by the General Secretary of the World Methodist Council, Bishop Ivan Abrahams, was, \u2018Leadership in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous World\u2019.<\/p>\n

Obasanjo, giving his opening remarks asked that Nigerian leaders must re-evaluate the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we re-evaluate the world? That is what I believe we have to do in our re-evaluating the world. What do we do? Jesus Christ himself told us that in this world, we would have trouble.<\/p>\n

Read Also: <\/strong>APC Lambasts Obasanjo Over Criticism Of Tinubu\u2019s Reforms<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI will give you two points. Wake up! We need a new generation of leaders; moral leaders, transformational leaders, and servant leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new generation of leaders will lead by showing love and leading the re-evaluation and transformation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Speaking further, he said, \u201cNigeria as it is now is volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous and dangerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have resources in Africa; we have 70 per cent of the world\u2019s copper. Japan has no mineral resources. Singapore is even worse. No resources!<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, whatever resources we have, if we are devoid of leadership, it won\u2019t get us anywhere. That is why leadership in Africa is very important.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t create an Africa of hope, prosperity, devoid of oppression and one of security, peace and where leaders have vision, knowledge and understanding this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also noted that the late South African freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela, and Preacher, Desmond Tutu, advised him to contest the presidency for the second time.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cWhen I came out of prison, and there was pressure mounting on me to take the mantle of leadership in Nigeria, the only place I went outside Nigeria was South Africa. I went to seek advice from Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.<\/p>\n

\u201cNelson said, \u2018Olu, whatever your instinct tells you, do it.\u2019 Tutu said, \u2018If your people want you to serve, serve and stop making excuses\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came back home and decided to make myself available and contest for the presidency of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found out that the years I spent in prison were advantageous to me in serving as president when I was elected.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can get good out of bad. That also happened to Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we get good leaders, let\u2019s make maximum use of them because good leaders don\u2019t flog. When you get one in a generation, make good use of them.\u00a0 Let\u2019s learn the right lesson from them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot make the world less volatile, simple or unambiguous unless we have the right type of leaders. We are talking about leaders that take examples of Jesus Christ and become like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to a question during the question and answer session, Obasanjo said the removal of History from the nation\u2019s educational curriculum was a huge disaster.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI don\u2019t know where we got the idea that we shouldn\u2019t teach history in our school. It is a stupid idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is like losing one\u2019s memory. It will be a disaster. I don\u2019t know where we got it from. Some people feel there is an aspect of the history we don\u2019t want to hear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are always the bad and the good even in your own life. As you may know, I am a proprietor of a school, and in my school, we must teach History, and it must be taught the right way. You can then decide to take whatever you want to take out of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no race in the world that has suffered like the black race, through slavery, slave trade and colonialism.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn America, some people are now teaching that the slave trade was not a true story \u2013 that the white and the black went to the Caribbean in search of greener pastures.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were shipped there as slaves. If we allow that to go, we will be enslaved again, and we must not allow that to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have given myself the task of working with some people to keep the slave trade alive in our history. We must not allow anyone to say the slave trade is not a true story and we must keep it on the front burner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking further, the former President said finding crude oil in Nigeria was the beginning of the country\u2019s misfortune.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cOne of the things that was a little bit of misfortune in Nigeria is crude oil. We were drinking and sleeping oil, and it was a misfortune for us. It made us to abandon agriculture. Oil is a waste asset. Agriculture is renewable. We have to go back to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to give something to our youths who are becoming restive, frustrated and dangerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are going to curb that, it is giving them education, skills, empowerment and employment. If we don\u2019t, they will soon come to attack us in our homes in the daytime, and it is a matter of time.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven food, we don\u2019t produce enough. We spend over $20bn to import food. 60 per cent of arable land is not cultivated. The one cultivated is not used to maximum capacity. We need leaders who will lead us to the promised land.\u201d<\/p>\n

Advising up-and-coming politicians, he said it was a pity most politicians took politics as a profession without any backup plan.<\/p>\n

Africa Today News, New York<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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