Popular Nigerian author and political activist, Dele Farotimi has said that former president, Olusegun Obasanjo cannot be isolated from the problems that has befallen the country.
OsunDailyNG recalls that Obasanjo, while speaking during a public presentation of a book written by a former Minister of Trade, Investment and Industry, Olusegun Aganga, had said that Nigeria has not lived up to expectations since it got its independence 63 years ago.
“We’ve disappointed ourselves, we’ve disappointed Africa, we’ve disappointed the black race and we’ve disappointed the world
“We’ve not always put the round peg in the round hole.
“We’re carried along by ego and emotion of self, selfishness and self-centeredness, ethnic and religious jingoism with total lack of understanding of the world we live in and gross misunderstanding of what development entails and how to move fast and continuously on the trajectory of development,” Obasanjo said.
However, Farotimi, while replying a netizen who claimed Obasanjo is the best president the country has ever had, said that the former nation’s leader must first admit to his personal complicity before tagging Nigeria a failure.
He wrote, “He laid each and everyone of the evil cornerstones of the Nigerian state, and he cannot be divorced from its abject failure. Is he trying to make amends? Yes. But it doesn’t lie in his mouth to adjudge Nigeria a failure, without first admitting to his own personal complicity.”
