Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, said a democratic system bedevelled by insecurity, unemployment and other socio-economic challenges must be ditched.

He said any democratic system that failed on the tenets of democracy was not need in any society or country.

Obasanjo, who was hosted by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, at the inauguration of internal roads in Iseyin, said any democracy that nurtures poverty has failed.

Obasanjo said, “Democracy that nurtures a lack of peace and security must be thrown overboard. Democracy dividends must involve peace, security, stability, prosperity, wealth creation, employment and the wholesomeness of the society.”

He added, “Democracy that nurtures poverty is abortion. Democracy that nurtures unemployment is a failure.

The former president said democracy was nothing without work.

“That’s when democracy would continue to survive and people will feel that yes, democracy is a worthwhile system of government that must be embraced.”

Acekidc4:
Obasanjo is indirectly Calling himself a Failure cos all those things he mentioned happened during his Tenure too🤔 Pot calling Kettle black!! Shioor!!

Jideji:

Sentiment aside, we are yet to get it right. The only thing we are very successful at is politics

happney65:


You use your phone to use the internet today
Massive employment was caused by the telecommunications industry which was brought by Obasanjo himself for the first time in Nigeria

A minister of telecommunications under Abacha once said telephone isn't for the poor isn't it?

The only President that increased minimum wage thrice. The first 3500 in 1999. The Nigerian middle class grew massively under him

You can accuse him of being an election rigger and a dictator. But he did excellently well Economy wise.

Nobody,I repeat Nobody can or has done 1/3 of what he did ever since he left government in 2007

JagabanB:

U forgot to tell us how he crashed NITEL which was working along with MTEL because he wanted to use other networks as cash cow.
U forgot to tell us that he crashed our refineries, ALSCON, Steel company etc.
You forgot to tell us that he laid the foundation for póór democracy in this country today.
Whatever positive he did was well countered by a negative that's the story of leadership in Nigèria and he is a culprit.

happney65:


Yeye, I will give you facts.

Tell me how did he crash Nitel? Was it even efficient before he came on board? Nitel or Mtel or whatever the fvck they called themselves simply went out of business because they couldn't keep up with the pace of the new entrants.

Obasanjo was a pure capitalist who knew government has no business being in business. And that is what he did effectively.

The Nitel then that was like current day Nepa,very inefficient and dumb. They simply went off the radar when they couldn't keep up with the new pace so how is that Obasanjo's fault?

And how did he crash our refineries please I want to know? Where? When? How? Obasanjo when he was leaving in 79,we had 4 functional refineries that he handed over to shagari. It was useless Buhari when he took over from shagari started the trajectory of our wobbling refineries. Obasanjo when he was about leaving sold off the dead refineries to Dangote and Otedola to do it as he discovered the government can't and won't be able to.

It was Yaradua that reversed the sale. Dangote said it at the commissing of his refinery himself .

What about Power?. Obasanjo has handed off generation, transmission and distribution too when he was leaving, Yaradua also cancelled it and here we are. He did it the same way he did telecommunications

Even infrastructure sef. The most busy federal road in Nigeria the Lagos Ibadan expressway that the Buhari administration are fixing was even constructed by him too in 79

His only mistake was he being a dictator and an election rigger. But talking about the Economy, Nobody,I repeat Nobody has surpassed him since 1999.

Periodt!

deji17:
OBJ should be invited for questioning by DSS

happney65:


Yeye, I will give you facts.

Tell me how did he crash Nitel? Was it even efficient before he came on board? Nitel or Mtel or whatever the fvck they called themselves simply went out of business because they couldn't keep up with the pace of the new entrants.

Obasanjo was a pure capitalist who knew government has no business being in business. And that is what he did effectively.

The Nitel then that was like current day Nepa,very inefficient and dumb. They simply went off the radar when they couldn't keep up with the new pace so how is that Obasanjo's fault?

And how did he crash our refineries please I want to know? Where? When? How? Obasanjo when he was leaving in 79,we had 4 functional refineries that he handed over to shagari. It was useless Buhari when he took over from shagari started the trajectory of our wobbling refineries. Obasanjo when he was about leaving sold off the dead refineries to Dangote and Otedola to do it as he discovered the government can't and won't be able to.

It was Yaradua that reversed the sale. Dangote said it at the commissing of his refinery himself .

What about Power?. Obasanjo has handed off generation, transmission and distribution too when he was leaving, Yaradua also cancelled it and here we are. He did it the same way he did telecommunications

Even infrastructure sef. The most busy federal road in Nigeria the Lagos Ibadan expressway that the Buhari administration are fixing was even constructed by him too in 79

His only mistake was he being a dictator and an election rigger. But talking about the Economy, Nobody,I repeat Nobody has surpassed him since 1999.

Periodt!

Jideji:

Sentiment aside, we are yet to get it right. The only thing we are very successful at is politics

Acekidc4:
Obasanjo is indirectly Calling himself a Failure cos all those things he mentioned happened during his Tenure too🤔 Pot calling Kettle black!! Shioor!!

Acekidc4:
Obasanjo is indirectly Calling himself a Failure cos all those things he mentioned happened during his Tenure too🤔 Pot calling Kettle black!! Shioor!!

happney65:


Yeye, I will give you facts.

Tell me how did he crash Nitel? Was it even efficient before he came on board? Nitel or Mtel or whatever the fvck they called themselves simply went out of business because they couldn't keep up with the pace of the new entrants.

Obasanjo was a pure capitalist who knew government has no business being in business. And that is what he did effectively.

The Nitel then that was like current day Nepa,very inefficient and dumb. They simply went off the radar when they couldn't keep up with the new pace so how is that Obasanjo's fault?

And how did he crash our refineries please I want to know? Where? When? How? Obasanjo when he was leaving in 79,we had 4 functional refineries that he handed over to shagari. It was useless Buhari when he took over from shagari started the trajectory of our wobbling refineries. Obasanjo when he was about leaving sold off the dead refineries to Dangote and Otedola to do it as he discovered the government can't and won't be able to.

It was Yaradua that reversed the sale. Dangote said it at the commissing of his refinery himself .

What about Power?. Obasanjo has handed off generation, transmission and distribution too when he was leaving, Yaradua also cancelled it and here we are. He did it the same way he did telecommunications

Even infrastructure sef. The most busy federal road in Nigeria the Lagos Ibadan expressway that the Buhari administration are fixing was even constructed by him too in 79

His only mistake was he being a dictator and an election rigger. But talking about the Economy, Nobody,I repeat Nobody has surpassed him since 1999.

Periodt!

onuman:
Nigeria's democracy is a fraud given the skewed and lopsided political structure of Nigeria created by northern military dictators who created too many new federating units (19 states and Abuja) with corresponding large number of political constituencies in the old Northern region, but allowed only few (17 states) new federating units in the two old southern regions.
The political structure shifted the balance of political power to the old Northern region whose political class largely determine who wins presidential election to presides over Nigeria at any turn.