Obasanjo: Anyone Who Says Nigeria Doing Well Is Mad

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said anyone who claims Nigeria is doing well at the moment needs to be medically examined.

Obasanjo spoke as the special guest of honor at the Wilson Badejo Foundation’s 15th annual lecture with the theme, ‘Overcoming the twin challenges of poverty and insecurity in Nigeria’ held in Lagos.

The ex-president said Nigeria has not taken its rightful position because of poverty and insecurity.

He said, “Nigeria is not where it is supposed to be today. If anyone says it is ok where we are at the moment, then the person’s head needs to be examined.

“My friend, late Ahmed Joda, used to tell me that God has given us everything a nation needs and there’s no need for prayers because if God has given you everything and you squandered it, then something is wrong.

“I told him that even at that, we still need prayers as a nation because what is good needs prayers and on the other side too, we still need more prayers.”

Obasanjo, however, expressed the hope that if the right choice was made in 2023, the nation may witness progress.

He said: “It is either we make the right choice in 2023 because if we make the right choice, we would get there.

“However, if we do not make the right choice in 2023, things would consume us and we pray against that one. We must make the right choice in 2023.”

The guest speaker who is the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Prof Eghosa Osaghea, in his lecture titled, ‘Overcoming the twin challenge of poverty and insecurity in Nigeria,’ explained that when “one’s country fails the individual, then that individual becomes a failure.”

He said, “Poverty cannot divide us but it binds us what divides us is corruption. If you see street protests across the world, it is the poor who do it.

“Corruption, by whatever means, is what causes division.

“Many people today dig their boreholes for water, employ private security units, etc, yet, these are things that the state should have put in place.

“It is the duty of the state to provide these for the common good of all.”

No be just mad. Na Madness

Obviously

not only mad but demon possessed

COOOOORECT ASSESSMENT FROM NCN.

Nigeria is a sinking ship.

Who will rescue it?

From before your first term as a military head and your second coming and beyond, when has Nigeria ever done we'll?

The country has been a cesspit built upon a shaky foundation and not even qualified to be called a country.

This is actually where and how the citizens confuse previous governments with incumbents with the erroneous belief that the past was better.

Forget the make-believe and shoddy indices and indexes.

Nigeria has never truly done well. It only went a notch worse this time and judging from how the foundation is still the same today, admitting that it'd even get worse going forward shouldn't be mistaken as a comment from a pessimist or someone unpatriotic..it is simply called "living in reality".

To put my " rants" above in better perspective;

Obj said even worse thing against the GEJ administration particular in about the same months leading up to the 2015 general elections and visibly supported and encouraged Buhari's promise of a change.

Exactly the same thing is getting repeated today and to expect a different result is what i'm struggling to wrap my head around..

Deranged and a drug addict too

Mad is an understatement, anybody supporting APC led government at this point needs an appointment with a psychiatric doctor

Nigeria have been ran aground by these bunch of clueless and incompetent mofos in govt @ present who are asking the citizens to vote them again in order to save the country from their self-inflicted hardship. No be juju be that?