“During my administration as President, we had some people who were
under 50 years in leadership positions. One of them was Alamieseigha,
where is he today? Lucky Igbinedion, where is he today?
“The youngest was the Speaker, Buhari, you can still recall what
happened to him.
“You said Bola Tinubu is your master; what Buhari did was not anything
worse than what Bola Tinubu did. We got Buhari impeached.
“But in this part of the world, some people covered up the other man.
The man claimed he went to Government College, Ibadan, but the
Governor of Oyo State then went to Government College and packed all
the documents so that they would not know that he did not go there.
“I wanted someone who would succeed me, so I took Atiku. Within a
year, I started seeing the type of man Atiku is. And you want me to
get him there?
“I once went to Tanzania because Julius Nyerere recognised Biafra. He
told me not to mind his aides and others in government. They would say
they have one house in town, but their five-year-old sons and
daughters would have houses all over.
“Some of you who are condemning the leadership would get there
tomorrow and it will be a different story. Only very few are actually
good.
“Abacha, my predecessor, got $750 million. Through our lawyer in
Switzerland we recovered $1.25 billion and the lawyer still said there
is probably still another $1 billion to be recovered.
“In 1979 we had 20 new ships specially built for Nigeria. When I came
back 20 years after, the national shipping line had liquidated.
“The whole thing is not just about leadership. If we talk about good
leadership, you should also talk about good followers. If you talk
about human rights, you should also talk about human duties and
obligations.”
-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
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