I owe nobody apology for commitment to Nigeria, says Obasanjo
FORMER president Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said that he owes nobody any apology for his commitment to the Nigerian project.
Obasanjo stated this Tuesday night at a dinner organized in his honour by Governor Samuel Ortom during his private visit in Makurdi, Benue State capital.
He disclosed that shortly after his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) membership card was torn he withdrew from all partisan politics and became an impartial Nigerian.
The former president further said that he had a similar history to that of Governor Ortom, who recently revealed he was once a motor park tout at his youthful age, stating that he was called a tout at his old age in 2014.
He said that there was “no age, poverty, status, gender, position barrier in acquiring education and the day one stops learning is the day you also starts dying. He maintained that acquisition of knowledge should be from birth to death”.
Obasanjo applauded what he termed Ortom blueprint, which he described as an embodiment of good governance, adding that he must take note of all his promises and urged the people to help him succeed.
He said farmers in the country must joins hands together to provide food security, create employment and create wealth for the Nigerian citizens and used the opportunity to condole with the governor and the entire Tiv people over the death of their paramount ruler, HRH Dr. Alfred Akawe Torkula, Tor Tiv, who recently passed on.
Earlier in his remarks, Gov Samuel Ortom commended the former president for his contributions to the political development of Nigeria.
Ortom said the people of the state including him admired his courage and zeal in his pursuit for knowledge, after acquiring so much in life.
He said that his administration was committed to good governance and the necessary core values lacking in the society today.
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11 Comments
Obasanjo does not focus on nigeria but only on obasanjo and more obasanjo.He was president for 8 years at peak of oil boom ,what did he do with the money.Him and his friends did horizontal bunkering in bakassi peninsula for 4 years where is the money.If he so much love nigeria he should tell us what he did with all the money recovered from Abacha and excess crude oil money for 8 years.
He foisted sick and dieing yaradua and jonathan on nigeria instead of peter odili or donald duke or Ahmed Markarfi or Atiku or Buhari that he is now in love with this midnight.
That is not entirely correct. It was Jonathan that was president during Oil boom, not Obasanjo.
Oil rose to over $100 a barrel between 2002 and 2009 before the global meltdown.
A lot.
He met less than 2 billion dollars in the external reserve.
He left $50 billion plus another $30 billion in the excess crude account. That’s huge!
He needs to apologize for PDP do or die attitude during is tenure.
It’s only in a society like Nigeria that an evil man like OBJ can still be reckoned with. With people like OBJ as a model and corner stone who needs the devil.
Obasanjo is NOT committed to Nigeria. He is only committed to his own personal interests. Simple as that. The days of ignorance are gone for good.
But you do owe us an apology for nominating Jonathan as VP TO Yar’adua.
Obj is only ingratiating himself with Buhari to avoid being probed. Obj has committed more atrocities (stealing, vote rigging, etc.) in the last 16 years than any other person. Imbecilic Jonathan only built on the evil foundation that the grand old lunatic laid.
Ride on Baba ! But remember that apologies are part of that commitment especially where you are wrong in matters. No one ever knows everything. Politics is a balance of what one knows and what he doesn’t.
In what OBJ said that ownless apology to nobody in his commitment to Nigeria in Benue state visit recently, must consider that nobody above mistake and for kind of great leader you I think the mission wasn’t drop yet were role shall be keeping with sound contribution limitless and trim wrong steps.
THIS MAN IS JUST A FOX, AS CRAFTY AS A TIGER, NOTORIOUS APE
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