Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has criticized the administrations of Bola Tinubu saying that Nigeria has descended into chaos, confusion, and corruption under his leadership.
Obasanjo made these remarks in a keynote address at the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, over the weekend. He lamented, “As the world can see and understand, Nigeria’s situation is bad.
In a press statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, the former president, in his address titled “Leadership Failure and State Capture in Nigeria”, stated: “The more the immorality and corruption of a nation, the more the nation sinks into chaos, insecurity, conflict, discord, division, disunity, depression, youth restiveness, confusion, violence, and underdevelopment.”
Obasanjo, who was in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) but recorded a 25-minute video for the forum, compared Nigeria’s governance to that of Singapore.
He said, “The government [in Singapore] has also been responsive to the changing needs of its people and has invested heavily in areas such as healthcare, education, and social welfare.”
Reflecting on Nigeria’s current state, he remarked: “As we can see and understand, Nigeria’s situation is bad. The more the immorality and corruption of a nation, the more the nation sinks into chaos, insecurity, conflict, discord, division, disunity, depression, youth restiveness, confusion, violence, and underdevelopment.
“That’s the situation mostly in Nigeria during the reign of Baba-go-slow and Emilokan. The failing state status of Nigeria is confirmed and glaringly indicated and manifested for every honest person to see through the consequences of the level of our pervasive corruption, mediocrity, immorality, misconduct, mismanagement, perversion, injustice, incompetence, and all other forms of iniquity.
“The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example, which are the hallmarks of true leadership.”
“What is happening in Nigeria right before our eyes is state capture: The purchase of national assets by political elites and their family members at bargain prices, the allocation of national resources minerals, land, and even human resources to local, regional, and international actors. It must be prohibited and prevented through local and international laws,” he said.
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